Highlights•Clarifies the role of shared reality within the process of social transmission of
cultural information in cultural dynamics.•Reviews the research on shared reality process in …

Culture has become a critical concept for social psychology over the past quarter of a
century. Yet, cultural dynamics, the process and mechanism of formation, maintenance, and …

The intersubjective representation approach to culture focuses on cultural members' shared
knowledge representations about the culture that they are in. Members of the same culture …

This study develops and demonstrates a theoretical framework and corresponding
methodology to link variables at the culture level to the individual level and, then, to specific …

Increasingly psychologists are going beyond the study of cultural differences to study
cultural dynamics, the formation, maintenance, and transformation of cultural …

Highlights•The evaluative tuning of messages to an audience is a key pathway to shared
reality.•What matters is the goal underlying audience tuning rather than audience tuning per …

The relation of language and thought has occupied the center stage in many theoretical
discussions on the psychological foundation of culture. One of the most controversial views …

Shared reality is ubiquitous. We are incessantly confronted with situations that evoke and
demand judgments, beliefs, and emotional responses about a vast variety of objects, topics …

Scholars have long been concerned with understanding the psychological mechanisms by
which cultural (ie, shared) knowledge emerges. This article proposes a novel psychological …

In providing an overview of shared reality theory, the chapter first presents the current
formulation of the theory, with a focus on assumptions about critical conditions for the …