Foreign influence and national achievement

The impact of open milieus on Japanese civilization

Bibliographic Data

ID6200372
AuthorsDean K Simonton (0000-0002-7709-7977, California Department of Education, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume72
Issue1
Pages86-94
Publication date1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037//0022-3514.72.1.86
OpenAlexW4246232788
LanguageEN
Citations received35
References cited28

Foreign Influence and National Achievement: The Impact of Open Milieus on Japanese Civilization 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 g was a positive function of the amount of foreign influence at generation g - 2. For many leadership domains, in contrast, activity at generation g tended to be positively associated with national openness to alien influences at g + 1

Civilization · Political science · Cognitive Abilities and Testing · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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