“…Participants were first asked to estimate their overall intelligence, followed by Gardner's (1999) ten multiple intelligences (linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, body-kinaesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, existential, spiritual, and naturalistic intelligences), Sternberg's (1997) successful intelligences (adaptive, practical, and creative intelligences), and two items added specifically for the present study (nonverbal-logical intelligence and emotional intelligence). Nonverbal-logical intelligence was added because previous work has shown that Chinese respondents rate verbal skills as less important than their Western counterparts (Chen & Chen, 1988), whereas emotional 1 Although the distinction between individualism and collectivism remains one of the most prominent constructs in cross-cultural psychology (e.g., Vandello & Cohen, 1999), at least one recent review concluded that cultural differences these constructs "were neither as large nor as systematic as often perceived" (Oyserman, Coon, & Kemmelmeier, 2002). This appears to be an ongoing debate within cross-cultural psychology (e.g., see Schimmack, Oishi, & Diener, 2005), and our view here is that collectivism is likely to be related to lower SAI, as evidenced in previous work (e.g., Furnham et al, 2001;Yuen & Furnham, 2005).…”