The Psychological Processes of Cultural Retooling
研究了文化适应中个体如何顺利快速地将新行为融入自身文化库，基于50名在美外国硕士生的纵向数据，发现文化再装备经历冲突、矛盾、真实三个阶段，且个体轨迹因处理内部冲突的方式而异。
An essential challenge of cultural adaptation is to smoothly and swiftly incorporate new behaviors into one's cultural repertoire. I introduce the term “cultural retooling” to capture this process and provide a theory of its psychological dynamics. Using longitudinal data from 50 foreign-born master's degree students in the United States, I find that individuals use two core methods for addressing the internal conflict that they experience during cultural retooling (integrative and instrumental) and that the retooling process itself unfolds over three distinct phases (conflict, ambivalence, and authenticity). Moreover, I find that individuals vary in their trajectories across these phases (regressing, stagnating, or transforming) and that these trajectories are shaped by how internal conflict is addressed.