This study examines how episodic versus semantic autobiographical narratives influence social evaluation and perceived competence across adults of Indian, Chinese, and White (Caucasian) cultural backgrounds living in Canada. The project is a conceptual and cross-cultural extension of prior work by Ciaramelli, Waisman, Stendardi, and Moscovitch (2026), which found that autobiographical narratives rich in episodic detail were associated with higher ratings of perceived memory ability, interpersonal closeness, and social evaluation than narratives containing primarily semantic or generalized information. The present study first seeks to replicate these findings in a White Canadian reference group and then examine whether the same pattern of results generalizes to adults of Indian and Chinese cultural backgrounds living in Canada. Additionally, this present study seeks to investigate whether these preferences extend to decisions involving selections of a potential helper. Participants will read autobiographical narratives adapted from the paradigm developed by Ciaramelli et al. (2026). Episodic narratives contain event-specific contextual information, including perceptual, spatial, temporal, and emotional details, whereas semantic narratives contain more generalized, abstract, or decontextualized autobiographical information with reduced episodic specificity. Each participant will evaluate 10 narratives, consisting of five episodic and five semantic narratives. Each narrative scenario exists in both episodic and semantic versions; however, participants will view only one version of each scenario, with assignment of versions counterbalanced across participants. After each narrative, participants will complete ratings assessing the narrator's perceived memory ability, perceived intelligence, perceived competence, social evaluation detailedness, vividness, emotional engagement, self-projection, and familiarity with the type of situation described in the narrative. Ratings will be collected using standardized Likert-type scales. The primary objective of the study is to determine whether episodically rich autobiographical narratives elicit more positive social evaluations than semantically oriented narratives across cultural groups. Building on previous findings that episodic narratives increase interpersonal preference, the present study specifically examines whether episodic richness influences perceptions of narrator competence and willingness to seek assistance from the narrator. Specifically, the study will examine whether episodic narratives receive higher ratings of perceived memory ability, perceived competence, and social evaluation semantic narratives, and whether participants report a greater likelihood of seeking help from episodic narrators for a computer-related problem. In addition, this new study also tests whether episodic narratives are also associated with higher ratings of perceived intelligence. The study additionally includes familiarity ratings to examine whether participants' familiarity with the situations described in the narratives contributes to their evaluations. Familiarity will be included in follow-up analyses to determine whether the effects of narrative type on the primary social evaluation outcomes remain after accounting for differences in subjective familiarity. To better characterize individual differences in cultural cognition, participants will also complete a triad categorization task, a situational attribution task, and measures of acculturation. These measures assess tendencies toward relational versus categorical reasoning, situational versus dispositional attribution, and the extent to which participants endorse values and cognitive styles associated with their heritage culture or Canadian culture. Rather than assuming that ethnicity alone reflects cultural cognition, these measures provide participant-level indices that will be used in exploratory analyses to examine whether individual differences in cultural cognition and acculturation are associated with variability in responses to episodic and semantic narratives. The primary hypothesis is that episodic narratives will receive higher ratings of perceived memory ability, perceived competence, and social evaluation than semantic narratives across all three cultural groups. Furthermore, participants will report a greater likelihood of seeking help from narrators of episodic autobiographical narratives for a computer-related problem than from narrators of semantic autobiographical narratives. Secondary hypotheses predict that episodic narratives will also receive higher ratings of perceived intelligence, detailedness, vividness, emotional engagement, and self-projection. Of particular interest is whether episodic richness is associated with increased perceptions of competence, which may contribute to participants' willingness to seek assistance from the narrator. Follow-up analyses will examine whether the effects of narrative type on the primary social evaluation outcomes remain after accounting for familiarity ratings. Exploratory analyses will examine whether the magnitude of the episodic advantage differs across cultural groups and whether any observed differences are associated with individual differences in cultural cognition and acculturation.