Abstract
In the current study we present two experiments in which we ask Japanese and North American participants to draw sociograms which includes a circle representing themselves and a series of circles representing their friends. Three studies suggested that Japanese and North Americans differ in the way in which they create a symbolic representation of their friends. Within these symbolic representations of the self and others, North Americans exhibited self-enhancement by drawing the self as much larger than their friends. Japanese, however, draw the circle representing themselves and their friends as almost identical in size. Cognition of the self and interpersonal relationships will be discussed.
