Divergent consequences of success and failure in japan and north america: an investigation of self-improving motivations and malleable selves.

By Steven J. Heine, Shinobu Kitayama, D. Lehman, T. Takata, Eugene Ide, C. Leung, Hisaya Matsumoto. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2001

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Interjudge Agreement, Self-Enhancement, and Liking: Cross-Cultural Divergences (2002, background): “, Morling, Kitayama, & Miyamoto, in press) and ultimately improvable through efforts (Heine et al., 2001; Holloway, 1988).”
Finding "meaning" in psychology: a lay theories approach to self-regulation, social perception, and social development. (2006, background): “An increasing number of findings are showing that many psychological phenomena common in Western cultures either do not hold or operate differently in other cultures (e.g., Heine et al., 2001; Markus & Kitayama, 1991; Nisbett, Peng, Choi, & Norenzayan, 2001).”
The Motivating Role of Dissociative Out-Groups in Encouraging Positive Consumer Behaviors (2014, methodology): “Importantly, affirmation can occur not only at the individual level but also at the group level of the self (e.g., Derks, Van Laar, and Ellemers 2009; Hoshino-Browne et al. 2001; Sherman et al. 2007; White, Argo, and Sengupta 2012).”
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Stereotype content model across cultures: Towards universal similarities and some differences (2009, neutral): “, 1997), rate failures as more self-relevant (Heine et al., 2001; Lee & Seligman, 1997), and self-criticize more (Kitayama et al.”
The benefits of frequent positive affect: does happiness lead to success? (2005, neutral): “For example, compared with European Americans, Asians and Asian Americans are more likely to persist at a task at which they are not performing well in order to master it and may thus suffer in terms of mood because they continue working on something at which they are not proficient (Heine et al., 2”
A cross-cultural investigation of trait emotional intelligence in Hong Kong and the UK (2014, neutral): “, 2001; Kitayama, Markus, Matsumoto, & Norasakkunkit, 1997), are more likely to engage in compensatory self-enhancement (Heine et al., 2001), and exhibit fewer and weaker self-serving biases (Falk et al.”