Curt Hoffman,Ivy Lau,and David Johnson (1986)provided native English-speakers and Chinese-English bilinguals with descriptions of people who fit either an artistic type or a shi gú type.English-speakers filled in gaps in the descriptions with inferences about the artistic type,but not about the shi gú type.In contrast,bilinguals who read the descriptions in English filled in blanks for the artistic type,but not the shi gú type,and bilinguals who read the descriptions in Chinese filled in the blanks for the shi gú type,but not the artistic type.These results suggest that

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The results suggest that language and culture shape our implicit personality theories. The fact that bilinguals filled in gaps for different types of descriptions depending on the language in which they were presented suggests that their understanding of personality traits is influenced by the language and cultural context in which they learned them. This supports the idea that there may be cultural and linguistic differences in the implicit personality theories that people use to make sense of other people's behavior.

Curt Hoffman,Ivy Lau,and David Johnson (1986)provided Native English-Speakers and Chinese-English