| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| List of Figures | 第11-12页 |
| List of Tables | 第12-18页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第18-26页 |
| ·Statement of the problem and significance of the present research | 第18-21页 |
| ·Research objectives and central theme | 第21-22页 |
| ·Research questions and hypotheses | 第22-24页 |
| ·Research methodology applied | 第24页 |
| ·Structure of the dissertation | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter 2 Diverse Views of Culture in IC Studies | 第26-46页 |
| ·Conceptualizations of culture | 第26-32页 |
| ·Categorization of definitions of culture | 第26-27页 |
| ·Structural-functional view of culture | 第27-29页 |
| ·Process view of culture | 第29-30页 |
| ·Critical view of culture | 第30-31页 |
| ·Postmodern view of culture | 第31-32页 |
| ·Philosophical foundations of diverse views of culture in IC | 第32-38页 |
| ·Two primary dimensions | 第32-33页 |
| ·Three paradigms | 第33-36页 |
| ·Scientific/objectivist/functionalist paradigm | 第33-34页 |
| ·Humanistic/subjectivist/interpretive paradigm | 第34-35页 |
| ·Critical paradigm | 第35-36页 |
| ·Paradigm wars or paradigm integration? | 第36-38页 |
| ·Fixed-trait view of culture as most prevalent in contemporary IC scholarship | 第38-45页 |
| ·“Culture” in key IC publications in the US | 第38-39页 |
| ·“Culture” in selected Chinese IC publications | 第39-42页 |
| ·A “culture paradox” in contemporary research | 第42-43页 |
| ·Cultural dimensions and syndromes as a continuation of the “paradox” | 第43-45页 |
| ·Chapter summary | 第45-46页 |
| Chapter 3 The Fixed-Trait View of Culture: A Critical Analysis | 第46-63页 |
| ·Nature of the fixed-trait view of culture | 第46-50页 |
| ·What is culture? | 第46-48页 |
| ·How do cultures vary? | 第48-50页 |
| ·Contributions of the fixed-trait view of culture | 第50-51页 |
| ·Limitations of the fixed-trait view of culture | 第51-61页 |
| ·Conceptual challenges | 第51-56页 |
| ·Cultural boundaries | 第51-53页 |
| ·Biculturalism | 第53-54页 |
| ·Within-culture variations | 第54-56页 |
| ·Empirical challenges | 第56-61页 |
| ·Nation-level cultural differences | 第56-57页 |
| ·Cultural coherence | 第57-59页 |
| ·Cultural causation | 第59-61页 |
| ·Chapter summary | 第61-63页 |
| Chapter 4 Improvements of the Fixed-Trait View of Culture across Disciplines | 第63-79页 |
| ·Multiple-level cultural analysis | 第63-67页 |
| ·Individual level analysis of culture in cross-cultural psychology | 第63-64页 |
| ·Individual level analysis of culture in IC studies | 第64-65页 |
| ·Kulich’s cultural analytical matrix | 第65-67页 |
| ·Summary | 第67页 |
| ·Emic approaches to culture | 第67-77页 |
| ·Etic and emic approaches perceived as complementary | 第69-72页 |
| ·Berry’s derived etic approach | 第69-70页 |
| ·Kulich’s critical integration approach | 第70-71页 |
| ·Summary | 第71-72页 |
| ·Etic and emic approaches perceived as incompatible | 第72-77页 |
| ·A brief overview of indigenous psychology as a discipline | 第73页 |
| ·Yang’s monocultural and cross-cultural indigenous approaches | 第73-76页 |
| ·Summary | 第76-77页 |
| ·The symbolic interactionist view of culture in IC | 第77-78页 |
| ·Chapter summary | 第78-79页 |
| Chapter 5 Culture as Dynamic Processes: An Alternative View | 第79-100页 |
| ·Defining culture | 第80-86页 |
| ·Culture as a loosely organized network of shared knowledge | 第81-83页 |
| ·Uneven distribution of cultural knowledge among cultural members | 第83-84页 |
| ·Human agency in culture and psychology | 第84-86页 |
| ·What forms does cultural knowledge take? | 第86-89页 |
| ·Declarative knowledge | 第86-88页 |
| ·Procedural knowledge | 第88-89页 |
| ·Where does cultural knowledge reside? | 第89-91页 |
| ·Application of cultural knowledge | 第91-98页 |
| ·Availability | 第92-93页 |
| ·Chronic accessibility | 第93页 |
| ·Temporary accessibility | 第93-95页 |
| ·Applicability | 第95-96页 |
| ·Boundary conditions for cultural knowledge activation | 第96-98页 |
| ·Cognitive and motivational states | 第96-97页 |
| ·Cultural identity and contrast effect | 第97-98页 |
| ·Chapter summary | 第98-100页 |
| Chapter 6 Culture as Dynamic Processes in IC | 第100-120页 |
| ·“Normalizing” culture | 第100-105页 |
| ·Culture as the whole story | 第100-102页 |
| ·Culture as part of the story | 第102-105页 |
| ·Understanding IC: A dynamic process view of culture | 第105-118页 |
| ·Reviewing some key IC models | 第105-108页 |
| ·Models proposed by Neuliep, Dodd, and Ting-Toomey | 第105-106页 |
| ·Gudykunst and Kim’s model | 第106-108页 |
| ·Underemphasized intergroup dimensions of IC | 第108-110页 |
| ·The social identity theory | 第108-109页 |
| ·The communication accommodation theory | 第109-110页 |
| ·Developing a social psychological process model of IC | 第110-118页 |
| ·Incorporating dynamic aspects of culture and intergroup dimensions of communication into Gudykunst and Kim’s model | 第110-115页 |
| ·A refined process model of IC | 第115-117页 |
| ·Validation of the process model | 第117-118页 |
| ·Chapter summary | 第118-120页 |
| Chapter 7 Initial Tests of the Social Psychological Process Model of IC (1): Study I | 第120-140页 |
| ·Culture priming | 第120-121页 |
| ·Research background | 第121-122页 |
| ·Significance of Study I | 第122-123页 |
| ·Tentative research hypothesis | 第123-125页 |
| ·Pilot study and modified hypothesis | 第125-126页 |
| ·Method | 第126-131页 |
| ·Subjects | 第126-127页 |
| ·Culture and neutral primes and the social attribution task | 第127-130页 |
| ·Procedures | 第130-131页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第131页 |
| ·Results | 第131-134页 |
| ·Discussion | 第134-139页 |
| ·Chapter summary | 第139-140页 |
| Chapter 8 Initial Tests of the Social Psychological Process Model of IC (2): Studies II and III | 第140-174页 |
| ·Study II | 第140-158页 |
| ·The proverb sampling method | 第140-142页 |
| ·The IC dimension of the experiment | 第142-144页 |
| ·Research hypotheses | 第144-145页 |
| ·Method | 第145-146页 |
| ·Subjects | 第145页 |
| ·Procedures | 第145-146页 |
| ·Data analysis and results | 第146-155页 |
| ·Comparing the two data pools | 第146-149页 |
| ·Comparing the two top sayings lists derived from the two saying pools | 第149-155页 |
| ·Discussion | 第155-158页 |
| ·Study III | 第158-172页 |
| ·What is “over-tuning effect?” | 第159-161页 |
| ·The case | 第161-164页 |
| ·Case analysis | 第164-172页 |
| ·Impact of individual factors and unique classroom context | 第164-167页 |
| ·Cultural knowledge application and human agency | 第167-168页 |
| ·Cultural and social identity and motivation issues | 第168-171页 |
| ·Cultural knowledge application and effective IC | 第171-172页 |
| ·Chapter summary | 第172-174页 |
| Chapter 9 General Discussions and Conclusion | 第174-195页 |
| ·Summary of the research results | 第174-178页 |
| ·Theoretical and practical implications of the present research | 第178-189页 |
| ·Theoretical implications | 第179-186页 |
| ·A dynamic approach to IC | 第179-181页 |
| ·Cultural differences reframed | 第181-186页 |
| ·Between-culture variations in knowledge structures | 第181-183页 |
| ·Within-culture variations in knowledge structures | 第183-186页 |
| ·Practical implications | 第186-189页 |
| ·IC competence development | 第186-188页 |
| ·The priming research method | 第188-189页 |
| ·Limitations of the present research | 第189-192页 |
| ·Directions for future research | 第192-195页 |
| References | 第195-217页 |
| Appendixes | 第217-229页 |
