TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perception
JO  - Psychological science
A1  - Loughnan, Steve
A1  - Kuppens, Peter
A1  - Allik, Juri
A1  - Balazs, Katalin
A1  - de Lemus, Soledad
A1  - Dumont, Kitty
A1  - Gargurevich, Rafael
A1  - Hidegkuti, Istvan
A1  - Leidner, Bernhard
A1  - Matos, Lennia
A1  - Park, Joonha
A1  - Realo, Anu
A1  - Shi, Junqi
A1  - Sojo, Victor Eduardo
A1  - Tong, Yuk-Yue
A1  - Vaes, Jeroen
A1  - Verduyn, Philippe
A1  - Yeung, Victoria
A1  - Haslam, Nick
SP  - 1254
EP  - 1258
VL  - 22
IS  - 10
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0956-7976
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797611417003
ID  - ref1
ER  -