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Cultural perspectives on self-enhancement and self-protection
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The article was published on 2011-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 38 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Impression management.read more
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Economic Inequality Is Linked to Biased Self-Perception
Steve Loughnan,Steve Loughnan,Steve Loughnan,Peter Kuppens,Peter Kuppens,Jüri Allik,Katalin Balázs,Soledad de Lemus,Kitty Dumont,Rafael Gargurevich,István Hidegkuti,Bernhard Leidner,Lennia Matos,Joonha Park,Joonha Park,Anu Realo,Junqi Shi,Victor Sojo,Yuk yue Tong,Jeroen Vaes,Philippe Verduyn,Victoria Wai-lan Yeung,Nick Haslam +22 more
TL;DR: Results indicate that macrosocial differences in the distribution of economic goods are linked to microsocial processes of perceiving the self, and socioeconomic differences among societies play an important but unrecognized role in how people evaluate themselves.
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Self-Enhancement and Psychological Adjustment: A Meta-Analytic Review
TL;DR: The results suggest that self-enhancement is beneficial for personal adjustment but a mixed blessing for interpersonal adjustment.
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When Academic Achievement Is an Obligation: Perspectives From Social-Oriented Achievement Motivation
TL;DR: This paper found that Asian students on average not only performed better than other ethnic groups as documented in multinational achievement tests, but also showed more negative emotions and test anxiety, which was rooted in the endorsement of social-oriented achievement motivation (SOAM) among Asian students.
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Tactical Self-Enhancement in China: Is Modesty at the Service of Self-Enhancement in East Asian Culture?
Huajian Cai,Constantine Sedikides,Lowell Gaertner,Chenjun Wang,Mauricio Carvallo,Yiyuan Xu,Erin M. O'Mara,Lydia Eckstein Jackson +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the tactical nature of self-enhancement in Chinese culture and call for research on when and how it is pursued tactically in different cultures.
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On the panculturality of self-enhancement and self-protection motivation: the case for the universality of self-esteem
TL;DR: This article proposed the extended self-enhancing tactician model to account for cross-cultural invariance (equivalence of self-motive strength and self-esteem desire across cultures) and cross-culture variability (differential manifestations of selfmotives and selfesteem across cultures).