Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 95 (5) of Journal of
Applied Psychology (see record 2010-18410-003). Tables 1 and 2 were printed incorrectly …

Are Americans more individualistic and less collectivistic than members of other groups?
The authors summarize plausible psychological implications of individualism-collectivism …

What accounts for the prevalence of negative news content? One answer may lie in the
tendency for humans to react more strongly to negative than positive information.“Negativity …

Research confirms that intentions play an important role in the decision to start a new firm.
But what factors influence intention? The purpose of this study is to investigate the …

In the past few decades, economic analysis of law has been challenged by a growing body
of experimental and empirical studies that attest to prevalent and systematic deviations from …

Little is known about the context sensitivity of users' online security perceptions and
behaviors to national and individual attributes, and there is inadequate research about the …

Since the publication of Markus and Kitayama's pivotal article on culture and the self, the
concepts of independent, relational, and interdependent self-construal have become …

Subjective well-being (SWB) is a field of psychology that attempts to understand people's
evaluations of their lives. These evaluations may be primarily cognitive (eg, life satisfaction …

Recent theoretical discussions of optimism as an inherent aspect of human nature converge
with empirical investigations of optimism as an individual difference to show that optimism …

It is assumed that people seek positive self-regard; that is, they are motivated to possess,
enhance, and maintain positive self-views. The cross-cultural generalizability of such …