Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
Loading next page...
/lp/american-psychological-association/foreign-influence-and-national-achievement-the-impact-of-open-milieus-0ZLglwf1MT
References
References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1997 American Psychological Association
- ISSN
- 0022-3514
- eISSN
- 1939-1315
- DOI
- 10.1037/0022-3514.72.1.86
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Input from alien cultures might stimulate exceptional national achievements. This hypothesis was tested by applying generational time-series analysis to a society whose history shows tremendous variation in its receptiveness to the external world (viz., Japan between 580 and 1939). After required controls and data transformations were introduced, the cross-correlations were examined between 3 measures of extracultural influx (outside influence, travel abroad, and eminent immigrants) and 14 measures of national achievement (politics, war, business, religion, medicine, philosophy, nonfiction, fiction, poetry, drama, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and swords). For most domains of creative achievement, the number of eminent individuals at generation gwas a positive function of the amount of foreign influence at generation g− 2. For many leadership domains, in contrast, activity at generation gtended to be positively associated with national openness to alien influences at g+ 1.
Journal
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology – American Psychological Association
Published: Jan 1, 1997