Cultural Intelligence and Cultural Bias: Focusing on Intercultural Self-Efficacy

In this paper, we will first examine the intelligence theory, which is the basis of the cultural intelligence theory. Research on the theory of human intelligence, which began with IQ, has expanded and deepened the scope and depth of research over time, exploring the essence of intelligence. The cultural intelligence theory borrows these intelligence research contents and systems, and we want to find out about them. In particular, we would like to pay attention to the importance of acquired factors for intelligence that the intelligence theory tells us. The theory of cultural intelligence as a human intelligence necessary in the context of cultural diversity considers the problem of prejudice as an obstacle important. Therefore, we will examine the categorization process that humans learn while growing up and the category bias resulting from it. Next, we will examine texts and media that directly or indirectly affect category bias. We would like to think about how texts represented by nouns and media represented by images can reinforce prejudices and stereotypes. Lastly, we analyzed the psychological research achievements that have been made in relation to human bias. More than one hundred theories have been accumulated as a result of long time research. Among them, theories that are judged to be very important in relation to the theory of cultural intelligence have been selected and examined, and the prejudice in the form of emphasizing the human individual and the form of prejudice that occurs between groups are classified and considered.