Virginia S. Y. Kwan

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that the relative importance of relationship harmony to self-esteem was greater in Hong Kong than in the United States, and the independent and interdependent self-construals and the 5 factors of personality were shown to influence life satisfaction through the mediating agency of selfesteem and relationship harmony in equivalent ways across these two cultural groups.

TL;DR: The stereotype content model (SCM) can serve as a pancultural tool for predicting group stereotypes from structural relations with other groups in society, and comparing across societies.

TL;DR: The SAAAS demonstrates mixed, envious anti-Asian American prejudice, contrasting with more-often-studied contemptuous racial prejudices (i.e., against Blacks).

TL;DR: The form of quadratic change supported predictions about the influence of period of life and social climate as factors in change over the adult years: Scores on Dominance and Independence peaked in the middle age of both cohorts and were lowest during peak years of the culture of individualism.

TL;DR: A new interpersonal approach to self-enhancement decomposes self-Perception into 3 components: perceiver effect, target effect, and unique self-perception and suggests that this resulting measure of self- enhancement is less confounded by unwanted components of interpersonal perception than previous social comparison and self-insight measures.