@article{ref1,
title="Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perception",
journal="Psychological science",
year="2011",
author="Loughnan, Steve and Kuppens, Peter and Allik, Juri and Balazs, Katalin and de Lemus, Soledad and Dumont, Kitty and Gargurevich, Rafael and Hidegkuti, Istvan and Leidner, Bernhard and Matos, Lennia and Park, Joonha and Realo, Anu and Shi, Junqi and Sojo, Victor Eduardo and Tong, Yuk-Yue and Vaes, Jeroen and Verduyn, Philippe and Yeung, Victoria and Haslam, Nick",
volume="22",
number="10",
pages="1254-1258",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0956-7976",
doi="10.1177/0956797611417003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797611417003"
}