David A. Kenny
April 18, 1998
The degree to which a people rate themselves higher than they rates others.
To measure individual differences in self enhancement or self-effacement, the person's perceiver and target effect
should be removed.
With western samples, we usually find self-enhancement: People see themselves as better than
others. The one exception is
Big Five factor of emotional stability: People see others as more
emotionally stable.
Taylor and Brown have hypothesized that self-enhancement leads to better mental health
outcomes.
With Virginia Kwan and
Michael Bond, I am exploring this issue. We are
proposing that perceiver and target effects must be controlled in measuring
self-enhancement.
Chapter 9 of
Interpersonal Perception: A Social Relations Analysis
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