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<b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,153,0)"><font size="6"><span style="color:rgb(255,153,0)">To Conform or not to Conform?</span><br></font></b><i style="color:rgb(255,153,0)"><font size="4"> The influence of culture and parenting on South Korean preschoolers’ deference to others</font></i><font style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)" size="6"><b><i><br>
</i><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)" size="4"></font></b></font><br>by Elizabeth Kim<br></div><b><font size="4"><br></font></b><div style="text-align:center">
<font size="4"><b>7:00pm</b> on <font style="font-family:arial black,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)" size="4"><b>Friday, June 15th, 2012</b></font></font><br>
</div><br><div style="text-align:center">RSVP by Tuesday, June 12th, 2012<br></div><br><div style="text-align:center"><font><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US">The Korean-American Educational Commission
warmly welcomes you to our fifth Fulbright Forum of the
2011-2012 program year with 2011 Junior Researcher Elizabeth Kim.</span></font></font><br><font><font face="Arial">
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<span lang="EN-US">This Forum will be held at </span><span lang="EN-US"><b>7:00 P.M</b>.</span><span lang="EN-US"> sharp on
Friday, June 15th on the 6th floor of KAEC's Mapo-gu building.
Following the presentation, a light reception will be held.
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</div><br><br><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><b>Presentation Summary</b>:</font><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">When faced with a conflict between their visual judgment and claims made by a majority, do children trust their own judgment and display autonomy or trust others and conform to the majority? Moreover, do these decisions change when the majority is composed of members of the same ethnic group or outsiders? Previous research found that in the face of conflicting visual evidence, the rate of conformity to the majority was higher among Asian-American children than among Caucasian-American children. Liz’s Fulbright research further explores this cultural difference by examining preschoolers’ rates of conformity in South Korea, one of the most ethnically and linguistically homogenous countries in the world. Her presentation will explore how westernization, parenting, and recent socio-cultural changes might highlight differences between U.S. immigrant and South Korean socialization patterns.<span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<br><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><b>Biography:</b></font><font size="4"><span></span></font><br><font><span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></font>
<p class="MsoNormal">Elizabeth Kim completed her B.A. in English Literature at Wellesley College and received her Ed.M. in Human Development & Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her academic interests include children’s trust in testimony, how children learn in cultural and school contexts, and developmental disorders. She has worked at Harvard Medical School/Children’s Hospital Boston projects on ADHD and Dyslexia, MIT’s Imagination Toolbox Educational Software Lab, and the Task Force for Global Education at the Korean National Commission for UNESCO. Current research projects focus on understanding how collectivist/individualist socialization impacts children’s decision-making and cross-cultural comparisons of parent-child interactions.<span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p>
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</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><img alt="Inline image 1" src="cid:ii_137bb102d40eefb8" height="96" width="72"><br clear="all"></div><div style="text-align:center"><i>Elizabeth Kim, Fulbright Junior Researcher 2011-2012</i><br clear="all">
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