Wanting to Be Great and Better But Not Average: On the Pancultural Desire for Self-Enhancing and Self-Improving Feedback

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 521-526

  Gaertner, Lowell ^a   Sedikides, Constantine ^b   Cai, Huajian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Self; Self enhancement; Self evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859861023     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022112438399     Document Type: Article

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