Cultural Construction of Success and Epistemic Motives Moderate American-Chinese Differences in Reward Allocation Biases

• Main Authors: LEUNG, Angela K. Y., KIM, Young-Hoon, ZHANG, Zhi-Xue, TAM, Kim-Pong, CHIU, Chi-Yue
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: self-serving bias; other-serving bias; culture; success; need for cognitive closure; Multicultural Psychology; Personality and Social Contexts
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1155; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2411/viewcontent/CulturalConstructionSuccess_2012.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management 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...