A Dutch Girl's status post on facebook about presenting at EASP! Me and her apparently are at the totally opposite ends of modesty :)

Yeah, I did it!! Presented at the EASP in Amsterdam. It went well, I met several interesting people of whom I read many articles (weird experience!!), got great feedback and quite a few business cards of people who want to collaborate! Really happy I didn't listen to my inner voice saying: I can't do this now! Now off for holidays!!!

Public presentations from a cross-cultural perspective

How research presenters present! Presenters from the US/or other cultures that afford high self-esteem, confidence, action orientation, internal locus of control as beneficial, they express esteem, pride, ownership of the research and show great pride in them, compared to researchers from more collectivist-orientations. These researchers on the other hand do not express that they have done something so amazing and that something that's better than everyone else's, less competition, more humble/modesty about the work (even if they may feel that way within them). As a research, the ability to distance yourself from the research itself is definetely a wonderful quality.