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It's Not Just Whether You Win Or Lose,It's also Where You Play the Game
dc.contributor.authorHallahan, Marken_US
dc.contributor.authorLee, Fionaen_US
dc.contributor.authorHerzog, Thaddeusen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-13T19:37:12Z
dc.date.available2010-04-13T19:37:12Z
dc.date.issued1997en_US
dc.identifier.citationHallahan, Mark; Lee, Fiona; Herzog, Thaddeus (1997). "It's Not Just Whether You Win Or Lose,It's also Where You Play the Game." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 28(6): 768-778. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/67591>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0022-0221en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/67591
dc.description.abstractThe positivity bias-the tendency to make internal attributions for others' successes and external attributions for others' failures-was examined in newspaper sports articles from the United States and Hong Kong. The positivity bias was observed in both cultures; however, the cultures manifested this bias differently. There was a greater emphasis on enhancing winners (making internal attributions for successes) in the United States and on protecting losers (making external attributions for failures) in Hong Kong. The concept of preserving others' face as a universal social motivation may provide an explanation for the cross-cultural consistency of the positivity bias. East-West differences in attributional tendencies and in the values of independence versus interdependence may explain cross-cultural differences in the expression of this bias.en_US
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dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.titleIt's Not Just Whether You Win Or Lose,It's also Where You Play the Gameen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michiganen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherClemson Universityen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherBrown Universityen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67591/2/10.1177_0022022197286007.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0022022197286007en_US
dc.identifier.sourceJournal of Cross-Cultural Psychologyen_US
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