Attributions of Deviance to Self and Peers by Japanese and U.S. Students
- 1 October 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Social Psychology
- Vol. 139 (5) , 596-610
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00224549909598420
Abstract
The author examined self-enhancement bias among 5th and 11th graders in the United States and Japan. After listening to stories describing aggressive, depressive, oppositional, and school-phobic behaviors of hypothetical peers, the participants rated the likelihood that they themselves and other students their age would act like the story protagonists. The U.S. students generally showed no greater self-enhancement tendencies than did the Japanese students; in addition, the relationships between positive and negative self-concepts and ratings of self-similarity to deviant exemplars were similar in both samples. In the depressed and oppositional stories, the 11th graders rated themselves less like the deviant characters and more different from their peers than did the 5th graders.Keywords
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