{"pk":50214,"title":"Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts : Bilingualism Shapes Tolerance for Simultaneous Identities","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In a set of three cross-cultural studies, we investigated how culture, linguistic background, and way of acquiring a bilingual status could affect tolerance for simultaneous identity (the belief that people can be simultaneously part of two social groups). Adults (N =1412), and 5-7-year-old children (N = 166) read stories about three bilingual children who each acquired a second language by different means (through learning, immigration, or parents) and measured participant's tolerance towards the simultaneous identity. In study 1 and 2 we found that US and Indian bilinguals were more likely to tolerate simultaneous linguistic identity than monolingual groups. In study 3 we find that bilingual 5-7-year-old children from the US and India exhibit a pattern similar to what was previously found in adults. Results suggest that both culture and the experience of bilingualism serve as important mechanisms in shaping our social group cognition.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Culture; Group Behaviour; Social cognition; Cross-cultural analysis"}],"section":"Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zj8g5mf","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sharanya","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bashyam","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine","department":""},{"first_name":"Nadia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chernyak","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California - Irvine","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50214/galley/38176/download/"}]}