Young Hoon Kim

TL;DR: This article found that the difference in self-esteem between East Asians and North Americans was driven primarily by Chinese participants' greater tendency to agree with negatively worded selfesteem items and that because of the motivation to maintain consistent responses, North Americans' response pattern varied depending on whether the first item in the selfesteem measur...

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that parents’ perceived norms can explain actual value transmission and the inter Subjective model paves some new directions for value transmission research, contributes to the understanding of cultural transmission and cultural change, and extends the intersubjective approach to culture.

TL;DR: It was found that self-enhancement, like self-effacement, was associated with greater vulnerability to depression and leading low (or high) performers to perceive their performance as high through providing bogus performance feedback produced analogous effects on the magnitude of experienced dejection.

TL;DR: Attitudes toward cosmetic surgery patients in multiple cultures were predominantly negative, and attitudes were less negative in the United States than in Hong Kong and Japan, partly because social contact, which reduced negativity in attitudes toward Cosmetic surgery patients, was more prevalent in the US.