Do people want to be flattered or understood? The cross-cultural universality of self-verification

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 169-172

  Seih, Yi Tai ^a   Buhrmester, Michael D ^a   Lin, Yi Cheng ^b   Huang, Chin Lan ^c   Swann Jr , William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Self enhancement; Self verification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867539295     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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