Why is Self-Enhancement Low in Certain Collectivist Cultures?

By J. Kurman. 2003

214 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Constantine Sedikides
2. Jonathon D. Brown
3. Huajian Cai
4. Chihiro Kobayashi
5. L. Jackson
6. Sylvia Xiaohua Chen
7. Erin M. O’Mara
8. Donghui Tang

In Social Psychology

1. Huajian Cai
2. L. Gaertner
3. Constantine Sedikides
4. Erin M. O’Mara
5. Sylvia Xiaohua Chen
6. Jonathon D. Brown
7. Chihiro Kobayashi
8. Mark A. Oakes

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Huajian Cai
2. Constantine Sedikides
3. L. Gaertner
4. Sylvia Xiaohua Chen
5. Jonathon D. Brown
6. Erin M. O’Mara
7. Chihiro Kobayashi
8. Mark A. Oakes

Citations in the corpus

• On the panculturality of self-enhancement and self-protection motivation: the case for the universality of self-esteem (2015, background): “…cross-cultural differences in modesty (Kurman, 2002; Study 2), modesty predicted negatively self-enhancement (academic self-evaluation; Kurman & Sriram, 2002), and modesty mediated (i.e., reduced) cultural influences on self-enhancement (academic self-evaluation, the BTAE; Kurman, 2003; Study 2).”
• Self‐esteem and culture: Differences in cognitive self‐evaluations or affective self‐regard? (2007, methodology): “…Asians evaluate their characteristics less positively, not because they like themselves less than do Westerners; and (e) cultural differences in self-evaluations depend, at least in part, on cultural differences in norms of modesty (Brown, 2003; Heine, 2003; Kurman, 2003; Heine et al., 2007).”
• Tactical Self-Enhancement in China (2011, methodology): “We assessed modesty with the 20-item Modest Responding Scale (Whetstone et al., 1992; also see Kurman, 2003; Kurman & Sriram, 2002).”
• Cultural influences on knowledge sharing through online communities of practice (2006, background): “The authors do not disclose whether this organization is located in a collectivist or individualist society, but other research suggests that modesty issues tend to be prevailing in collectivistic cultures (Kurman, 2003).”
• Behavioral Manifestations of Modesty (2009, background): “Cultural theories have suggested that self-enhancement varies across cultures, with higher levels in individualistic cultures and lower levels in collectivistic cultures (e.g., Kurman, 2001b, 2002, 2003; Kurman & Sriram, 1997, 2002; Kurman, Yoshihara-Tanaka, & Elkoshi, 2003).”
• Self-Esteem and Self-Enhancement in Japan and America (2003, background): “The fact that this relation also holds in Japan suggests that self-enhancement motives operate in both cultures (see also Kurman, 2003 [this issue]).”
• Why do Westerners self‐enhance more than East Asians? (2009, unknown): “23: 183–203 (2009) DOI: 10.1002/per ‘true feelings’ or in self-presentational biases (but see Heine et al., 2001; Heine, Takata, & Lehman, 2000; Kurman, 2003, for further discussion).”