The Better-Than-Average Effect in Hong Kong and the United States: The Role of Personal Trait Importance and Cultural Trait Importance

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: TAM, Kim-Pong, LEUNG, Angela K. Y., KIM, Young-Hoon, CHIU, Chi-Yue, LAU, Ivy Yee-Man, AU, Al K. C.
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
Subjects:
better-than-average-effect
culture
trait importance
intersubjective approach
Asian Studies
Multicultural Psychology
Personality and Social Contexts
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1143
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2399/viewcontent/BetterThanAverageHK_US_2012.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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