Data from Message Source Effects on Rejection and Costly Punishment of Criticism Across Cultures

We conducted the first systematic intercultural comparison of the Intergroup Sensitivity Effect (ISE). In a 2 × 2 within-participants design, participants from three countries representative of individualism (Canada), collectivism (China) and honour/face (Japan) responded to four critical comments (a) about their own culture or another culture and (b) by a commenter from the same or another culture. Participants responded to each comment on established self-report scales and could punish the commenter, at a cost to themselves. Finally, participants reported potential moderators and demographic information. We report robustness checks and detailed data descriptors to facilitate secondary analyses and follow-up studies.