Thinking Hard in Prosocial Ways: Two Studies on Expatriate-Local Interactions in the USA and South Korea

We conducted two field studies to test whether epistemic and social motives jointly predict the willingness of host country nationals (HCNs) to support expatriate adjustment. As hypothesized, prosocial (vs. proself) HCNs with high (vs. low) epistemic motivation were more willing to support expatriate adjustment. Implications and future directions were discussed.