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The current study explored whether overseas study experience is associated with global processing style. In Experiment 1, thirty students had overseas study experience and thirty students had not studied abroad were asked to complete a Navon task. The results showed that, compared to the students without overseas study experience, the students with overseas study experience tended to respond faster towards global letters. In Experiment 2, forty students had overseas study experience and forty students had not studied abroad were asked to look for similarities and differences between the two videos. The results revealed that, compared to students without overseas study experience, students with overseas study experience could find more similarities between objects. These findings indicated that there is a positive relationship between overseas study experience and global processing style.
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The author would like to thank Chi-yue Chiu, a professor of management and marketing at Nanyang Technological University. This research is supported by the Foundation for Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province (1506RJYA120), the Gansu Provincial Social Science Foundation (YB027), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31760282).
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Li, J., Wang, S., Zheng, H. et al. Overseas study experience and global processing style. Curr Psychol 39, 913–918 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-018-9805-y
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