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The Better-Than-Average Effect In Hong Kong And The United States: The Role Of Personal Trait Importance And Cultural Trait Importance, K-P. Tam, Ka Yee Angela Leung, Y-H. Kim, C-Y. Chiu, Yee-Man Ivy Lau, A. Au May 2013

The Better-Than-Average Effect In Hong Kong And The United States: The Role Of Personal Trait Importance And Cultural Trait Importance, K-P. Tam, Ka Yee Angela Leung, Y-H. Kim, C-Y. Chiu, Yee-Man Ivy Lau, A. Au

Ka Yee Angela LEUNG

People tend to make self-aggrandizing social comparisons on traits that are important to the self. However, existing research on the better-than-average effect (BTAE) and trait importance does not distinguish between personal trait importance (participants’ ratings of the importance of certain traits to themselves) and cultural trait importance (participants’ perceptions of the importance of the traits to the cultural group to which they belong). We demonstrated the utility of this distinction by examining the joint effects of personal importance and cultural importance on the BTAE among Hong Kong Chinese and American participants. Results showed that the BTAE was more pronounced for …


Cultural Construction Of Success And Epistemic Motives Moderate American-Chinese Differences In Reward Allocation Biases, Angela K. Y. Leung, Young-Hoon Kim, Zhi-Xue Zhang, Kim-Pong Tam, Chi-Yue Chiu May 2013

Cultural Construction Of Success And Epistemic Motives Moderate American-Chinese Differences In Reward Allocation Biases, Angela K. Y. Leung, Young-Hoon Kim, Zhi-Xue Zhang, Kim-Pong Tam, Chi-Yue Chiu

Ka Yee Angela LEUNG

When the relative contribution of the self and the group to a group success is unclear, Americans tend to exhibit a self-serving bias (rewarding the self more than what the self deserves), whereas the Chinese tend to exhibit an other-serving bias (rewarding the group more than the group deserves). In a study comparing the reward allocation biases of Americans and Chinese in different group outcome conditions, the authors showed that the abovementioned cultural difference is found (a) only for culturally congruent success experience (attaining approach goals for Americans and avoidance goals for Chinese) and (b) among individuals who are motivated …


The Better-Than-Average Effect In Hong Kong And The United States: The Role Of Personal Trait Importance And Cultural Trait Importance, Kim-Pong Tam, Angela K.-Y. Leung, Young-Hoon Kim, Chi-Yue Chiu, Ivy Yee-Man Lau, Al K. C. Au Apr 2013

The Better-Than-Average Effect In Hong Kong And The United States: The Role Of Personal Trait Importance And Cultural Trait Importance, Kim-Pong Tam, Angela K.-Y. Leung, Young-Hoon Kim, Chi-Yue Chiu, Ivy Yee-Man Lau, Al K. C. Au

Ka Yee Angela LEUNG

People tend to make self-aggrandizing social comparisons on traits that are important to the self. However, existing research on the better-than-average effect (BTAE) and trait importance does not distinguish between personal trait importance (participants’ ratings of the importance of certain traits to themselves) and cultural trait importance (participants’ perceptions of the importance of the traits to the cultural group to which they belong). We demonstrated the utility of this distinction by examining the joint effects of personal importance and cultural importance on the BTAE among Hong Kong Chinese and American participants. Results showed that the BTAE was more pronounced for …


Virtue And Virility: Governing With Honor And The Association Or Dissociation Between Martial Honor And Moral Character Of U.S. Presidents, Legislators, And Justices, Dov Cohen, Angela K.-Y. Leung Aug 2012

Virtue And Virility: Governing With Honor And The Association Or Dissociation Between Martial Honor And Moral Character Of U.S. Presidents, Legislators, And Justices, Dov Cohen, Angela K.-Y. Leung

Ka Yee Angela LEUNG

In many honor cultures, honor as martial honor and honor as character/integrity are often both subsumed under the banner of honor. In nonhonor cultures, these qualities are often separable. The present study examines political elites, revealing that Presidents, Congresspeople, and Supreme Court Justices from the Southern United States with a greater commitment to martial honor (as indexed by their military service) also show more integrity, character, and moral leadership. This relationship, however, does not hold for nonsoutherners. The present studies illustrate the need to examine both between culture differences in cultural logics (as these logics connect various behaviors under a …


Violence And Character: A Cups (Culture X Person X Situation) Perspective, D. Cohen, Angela K.-Y. Leung Jan 2012

Violence And Character: A Cups (Culture X Person X Situation) Perspective, D. Cohen, Angela K.-Y. Leung

Ka Yee Angela LEUNG

No abstract provided.


A Dual-Motive Model Of Self-Enhancement Behavior, Angela K.-Y. Leung, Kim-Pong Tam, Y. H. Kim Jan 2012

A Dual-Motive Model Of Self-Enhancement Behavior, Angela K.-Y. Leung, Kim-Pong Tam, Y. H. Kim

Ka Yee Angela LEUNG

No abstract provided.


Culture And The Structure Of Personal Experience: Insider And Outsider Phenomenologies Of The Self And Social World, D. Cohen, E. Hoshino-Browne, Angela K.-Y. Leung Jan 2012

Culture And The Structure Of Personal Experience: Insider And Outsider Phenomenologies Of The Self And Social World, D. Cohen, E. Hoshino-Browne, Angela K.-Y. Leung

Ka Yee Angela LEUNG

This chapter argues for the importance of understanding the role of culture in structuring people's personal phenomenological experience. Such an understanding is (1) important per se and (2) important for elucidating the feedback loops between culture and self, between macro‐level ideology and micro‐level experience. To illustrate, we contrast the “outsider” perspective on the self of Asian‐Americans with the “insider” perspective on the world for Euro‐Americans. We examine (1) the outsider versus insider perspective by looking at the phenomenology of memory imagery, online imagery, visualization and embodiment of narratives, and relational versus egocentric projection; (2) the implications for cultural differences in …


Culture And Phenomenological Experience: Their Relation To Perspective Taking In Mental Models, Angela K.-Y. Leung, D. Cohen Jan 2012

Culture And Phenomenological Experience: Their Relation To Perspective Taking In Mental Models, Angela K.-Y. Leung, D. Cohen

Ka Yee Angela LEUNG

No abstract provided.


Cultural Processes: An Overview, Chi-Yue Chiu, Angela K.-Y. Leung, Ying-Yi Hong Jan 2012

Cultural Processes: An Overview, Chi-Yue Chiu, Angela K.-Y. Leung, Ying-Yi Hong

Ka Yee Angela LEUNG

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of Culture And Friendship On Rewarding Honesty And Punishing Deception, Cynthia S. Wang, Angela K.-Y. Leung, M. See, X. Gu Jan 2012

The Effects Of Culture And Friendship On Rewarding Honesty And Punishing Deception, Cynthia S. Wang, Angela K.-Y. Leung, M. See, X. Gu

Ka Yee Angela LEUNG

The present research explores whether the type of relationship one holds with deceptive or honest actors influences cross-cultural differences in reward and punishment. Research suggests that Americans reward honest actors more than they punish deceptive perpetrators, whereas East Asians reward and punish equally (Wang & Leung, 2010). Our research suggests that the type of relationship with the actor matters for East Asians, but not for Americans. East Asians exhibit favoritism toward their friends by rewarding more than punishing them, but reward and punish equally when the actors are strangers (Experiment 1 and 2); Americans reward more than they punish regardless …


Language, Cognition, And Culture: The Whorfian Hypothesis And Beyond, Chi-Yue Chiu, Angela K.-Y. Leung, L. Kwan Jan 2012

Language, Cognition, And Culture: The Whorfian Hypothesis And Beyond, Chi-Yue Chiu, Angela K.-Y. Leung, L. Kwan

Ka Yee Angela LEUNG

No abstract provided.


Bicultural Individuals Accommodate Their Interaction Strategies To The Projected Distributions Of Promotion- And Prevention-Focused Regulatory Foci In Interaction Partner's Cultural Group, Angela K.-Y. Leung, Chi-Yue Chiu, Ying-Yi Hong Jan 2012

Bicultural Individuals Accommodate Their Interaction Strategies To The Projected Distributions Of Promotion- And Prevention-Focused Regulatory Foci In Interaction Partner's Cultural Group, Angela K.-Y. Leung, Chi-Yue Chiu, Ying-Yi Hong

Ka Yee Angela LEUNG

No abstract provided.


I Pay Back Both Good And Bad Things: Cross-Cultural Variations In The Relationship Between Pro-Social Reciprocity And Violence, Angela K.-Y. Leung, D. Cohen Jan 2012

I Pay Back Both Good And Bad Things: Cross-Cultural Variations In The Relationship Between Pro-Social Reciprocity And Violence, Angela K.-Y. Leung, D. Cohen

Ka Yee Angela LEUNG

No abstract provided.


Open-Minded Chinese/Closed-Minded Americans Self-Enhanced Following Prevention/Promotion Success: A New Look At Culture And Self-Enhancement, Angela K.-Y. Leung, Y. H. Kim, Chi-Yue Chiu, Z-X. Zhang Jan 2012

Open-Minded Chinese/Closed-Minded Americans Self-Enhanced Following Prevention/Promotion Success: A New Look At Culture And Self-Enhancement, Angela K.-Y. Leung, Y. H. Kim, Chi-Yue Chiu, Z-X. Zhang

Ka Yee Angela LEUNG

No abstract provided.


The Moderating Role Of Implicit Beliefs Of Culture On How Multicultural Individuals Perceive Their Host Country, Ivy Yee-Man Lau, Angela K.-Y. Leung Jan 2012

The Moderating Role Of Implicit Beliefs Of Culture On How Multicultural Individuals Perceive Their Host Country, Ivy Yee-Man Lau, Angela K.-Y. Leung

Ka Yee Angela LEUNG

No abstract provided.