Cultural construction of success and epistemic motives moderate American-Chinese differences in reward allocation biases

• Main Authors: Leung, Angela K.-Y., Kim, Young-Hoon, Tam, Kim-Pong, Chiu, Chi-yue, Zhang, Zhixue
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Behaviorism
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107247; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18052
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When the relative contribution of the self and the group to a group success is unclear, Americans tend to exhibit a self-serving bias (rewarding the self more than what the self deserves), whereas the Chinese tend to exhibit an other-serving bias (rewarding the group more than the group deserves). I...