Humble Self-Enhancement: Religiosity and the Better-Than-Average Effect

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 76-83

  Eriksson, Kimmo ^a,b   Funcke, Alexander ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

better than average effect; in group bias; religiosity; self enhancement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890720938     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550613484179     Document Type: Article

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