The better-than-average effect in Hong Kong and the United States : the role of personal trait importance and cultural trait importance
People tend to make self-aggrandizing social comparisons on traits that are important to the self. However, existing research on the better-than-average effect (BTAE) and trait importance does not distinguish between personal trait importance (participants’ ratings of the importance of certain trait...
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Main Authors: | Au, Al K. C., Leung, Angela K.-Y., Kim, Young-Hoon, Chiu, Chi-yue, Lau, Ivy Yee-Man, Tam, Kim-Pong |
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Other Authors: | Nanyang Business School |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2013
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107255 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17918 |
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Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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