“…Studies using selfdescriptions (Ross, Xun, & Wilson, 2002) and questionnaires, such as the Twenty Statement Questions (TST; Kuhn & McPartland, 1954), have consistently revealed that Euro-Americans provide more information about the independent self, such as personal attributes and beliefs (e.g., "I am tall, intelligent, good-natured") and less information about the interdependent self (e.g., "I am a son, a student, captain of the baseball team) compared to Asians (Bochner, 1994;Trafimow, Tirandis, & Goto, 1991;Wang, 2001). …”