PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: European Canadian, Wok
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It turns out that people who are motivated to secure a positive self-view are often resourceful enough to figure out a way to get one. Americans: the native americans listed fewer than half as many positive statements about themselves as the european=americans did, since native americans tend to have less independent self-concepts than european- Korea: european canadians tend to have higher self-esteem compared to japanese, the tendencies to show self-serving biases are less common among east asians samples than western ones thus, group-enhancing biases are more pronounced among. People learn self-enhancement motivation as they grow up in their culture: pa(cid:396)e(cid:374)ts ofte(cid:374) use sto(cid:396)ies a(cid:271)out the (cid:272)hild"s past (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396)s to so(cid:272)ialize the(cid:373) . In hierarchical, collectivist societies, such as the kinds found in east asian, face takes on special importance: what matters is not how positively you think of yourself but whether significant others thi(cid:374)k that (cid:455)ou"(cid:396)e doi(cid:374)g (cid:449)ell.
