For example, personality can help explain why people of the same culture behave differently in the same condition. According to Carver (2010), “extroverts are less cooperative than introverts when faced with a social dilemma about resources” (p. 761). People from collectivistic cultures with interdependent self-construals tend to have more cooperative behaviors, but someone who is extraverted from a collectivistic culture may be less cooperative when competing for personal gains compared to other people in the collectivistic culture. Another example is that people with interdependent self-construal are more likely to be agreeable than people with independent self-construal because people with interdependent self-construal are motivated to maintain social harmony; therefore they are more likely to present themselves as agreeable to maintain their relationships with other people. However, someone who has an interdependent self-construal but a low level of agreeableness may not necessarily behave cooperatively or show agreeableness towards other people's ideas. When predicting someone else's behaviors, it is important to keep in mind that individual differences such as personality can also influence your own behaviors. However, Hofstede and McCrae (2004) found a correlation between personality and cultural values (such as
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