Brief report: Mutual self-enhancement in Japan and the United States

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 215-223

  Dalsky, David ^a   Gohm, Carol L ^b   Noguchi, Kenji ^c   Shiomura, Kimihiro ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d IWATE PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Including others in the self; Mutual self enhancement; Relational self construal; Self enhancement; Self expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149114070     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022107313863     Document Type: Article

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