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Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perception

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dc.contributor.author Dumont, Kitty en
dc.contributor.author Loughnan S en
dc.contributor.author Kuppens P en
dc.contributor.author Allik K en
dc.contributor.author Balazs K en
dc.contributor.author De Lemus S en
dc.contributor.author Gargurevich R en
dc.contributor.author Hidegkuti I en
dc.contributor.author Leidner B en
dc.contributor.author Matos L en
dc.contributor.author Park J en
dc.contributor.author Realo A en
dc.contributor.author Shi J en
dc.contributor.author Sojo V en
dc.contributor.author Tong Y en
dc.contributor.author Vaes J en
dc.contributor.author Verduyn P en
dc.contributor.author Yeung V en
dc.contributor.author Haslam N en
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-07T14:14:34Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-07T14:14:34Z
dc.date.issued 2011 en
dc.identifier doi: 10.1177/0956797611417003
dc.identifier.citation Dumont KB;Loughnan S;Kuppens P;Allik K;Balazs K;De Lemus S;Gargurevich R;Hidegkuti I;Leidner B;Matos L;Park J;Realo A;Shi J;Sojo V;Tong Y;Vaes J;Verduyn P;Yeung V;Haslam N. (2011) Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perception. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 22(10) en
dc.identifier.issn 0956-7976 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/10645
dc.identifier.uri http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0956797611417003
dc.description.abstract People's self-perception biases often lead them to see themselves as better than the average person (a phenomenon known as self-enhancement). This bias varies across cultures, and variations are typically explained using cultural variables, such as individualism versus collectivism. We propose that socioeconomic differences among societies--specifically, relative levels of economic inequality--play an important but unrecognized role in how people evaluate themselves. Evidence for self-enhancement was found in 15 diverse nations, but the magnitude of the bias varied. Greater self-enhancement was found in societies with more income inequality, and income inequality predicted cross-cultural differences in self-enhancement better than did individualism/collectivism. These results indicate that macrosocial differences in the distribution of economic goods are linked to microsocial processes of perceiving the self.
dc.title Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perception en


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