Tactical Self-Enhancement in China: Is Modesty at the Service of Self-Enhancement in East Asian Culture?

Huajian Cai; Constantine Sedikides; Lowell Gaertner; Chenjun Wang; Mauricio Carvallo; Yiyuan Xu; Erin M. O’Mara; Lydia Eckstein Jackson

Date

2011-01-01

Publisher

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Huajian Cai is a professor at the Institute of Psychology at Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests involve culture and the self.

Keywords

self-enhancement, modesty, implicit self-esteem, explicit self-esteem, tactical self-enhancement

Citation

Cai, H., Sedikides, C., Gaertner, L., Wang, C., Carvallo, M., Xu, Y., . . . Jackson, L. E. (2011). Tactical Self-Enhancement in China: Is Modesty at the Service of Self-Enhancement in East Asian Culture? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2(1), 59-64. doi: 10.1177/1948550610376599