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Author: | Heine, S. Lehman, D. |
Title: | Cultural variation in unrealistic optimism: does the west feel more invulnerable than the east? |
Journal: | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
1995 : APR, VOL. 68:4, p. 595-607 |
Index terms: | CULTURE EUROPE, WEST EUROPE, EAST |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | Levels of unrealistic optimism were compared for Canadians and Japanese. Across 2 studies, Canadians showed significantly more unrealistic optimism than Japanese, and Canadian' optimism bias was more strongly related to perceived threat. Study 2 revealed that Japanese were even less unrealistically optimistic for events that were particularly threatening to interdependent selves. |
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