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What's wrong with cross-cultural comparisons of subjective Likert scales?: The reference-group effectSteven J Heine
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 82:903-18. 2002..Cross-cultural comparisons using subjective Likert scales are compromised because of different reference groups. Possible solutions are discussed...- Exposure to scientific theories affects women's math performanceIlan Dar-Nimrod
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Science 314:435. 2006..In two studies, women who read of genetic causes of sex differences performed worse on math tests than those who read of experiential causes... - Self as cultural product: an examination of East Asian and North American selvesS J Heine
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
J Pers 69:881-906. 2001..These differences reveal the manifold ways that culture shapes the self... 
Personality: the universal and the culturally specificSteven J Heine
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4 Canada
Annu Rev Psychol 60:369-94. 2009....- In search of East Asian self-enhancementSteven J Heine
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Pers Soc Psychol Rev 11:4-27. 2007..Overall, the evidence converges to show that East Asians do not self-enhance... - Mirrors in the head: cultural variation in objective self-awarenessSteven J Heine
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:879-87. 2008..In contrast, Japanese participants were unaffected by the presence of the mirror... - What do cross-national comparisons of personality traits tell us? The case of conscientiousnessSteven J Heine
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Psychol Sci 19:309-13. 2008..Country-level self- and peer-report measures of conscientiousness failed as markers of between-nation differences in personality... - Evolutionary explanations need to account for cultural variationSteven J Heine
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada http www2 psych ubc ca heine index html
Behav Brain Sci 34:26-7. 2011.... - The meaning maintenance model: on the coherence of social motivationsSteven J Heine
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Pers Soc Psychol Rev 10:88-110. 2006..People respond to these diverse threats in highly similar ways, which suggests that a range of psychological motivations are expressions of a singular impulse to generate and maintain a sense of meaning... - Where is the evidence for pancultural self-enhancement? A reply to Sedikides, Gaertner, and Toguchi (2003)Steven J Heine
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 89:531-8. 2005..The present article provides a theoretical basis for understanding cross-cultural differences in self-enhancement and considers the question of universality by exploring 2 different conceptualizations of positive self-regard... - Psychological universals: what are they and how can we know?Ara Norenzayan
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Bristish Columbia, Canada
Psychol Bull 131:763-84. 2005..Finally, universals are examined in relation to the questions of levels of analysis, evolutionary explanations of psychological processes, and management of cross-cultural relations... - Cross-cultural discrepancies in self-appraisalsMichael Ross
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 31:1175-88. 2005..The two studies provide evidence that Canadians possess stronger self-enhancing motivations than do Japanese and enable a cross-cultural analysis of several social psychological theories of self-appraisal... - The case of the transmogrifying experimenter: affirmation of a moral schema following implicit change detectionTravis Proulx
Department of Psychology, 2136 West Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
Psychol Sci 19:1294-300. 2008..The results demonstrate the functional interchangeability of different meaning frameworks, and highlight the role of unconscious arousal in prompting people to seek alternative schemas in the face of a meaning threat... - The weirdest people in the world?Joseph Henrich
Department of Psychology and Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 1Z4, Canada
Behav Brain Sci 33:61-83; discussion 83-135. 2010..We close by proposing ways to structurally re-organize the behavioral sciences to best tackle these challenges... - An exploration of cultural variation in self-enhancing and self-improving motivationsSteven J Heine
University of British Columbia
Nebr Symp Motiv 49:101-28. 2003 - The cultural shaping of depression: somatic symptoms in China, psychological symptoms in North America?Andrew G Ryder
Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
J Abnorm Psychol 117:300-13. 2008.... - Steven J. Heine: Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to PsychologySteven J Heine
Am Psychol 58:887-9. 2003 - Watching your troubles away: television viewing as a stimulus for subjective self-awarenessSophia Moskalenko
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:76-85. 2003..Television appears to be an effective stimulus to direct the focus away from oneself and to render people less aware of how they are falling short of their standards...
Research Grants
- A Cultural Investigation of Self-Improving MotivationsSTEVEN HEINE; Fiscal Year: 2005....