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It is currently, however, unknown how much people tend to value their own versus their family\u2019s well-being. A recent study documented that people value family happiness over personal happiness across four cultures. In this study, we sought to replicate this finding across a larger sample size ( N = 12,819) and a greater number of countries ( N = 49). We found that the strength of the idealization of family over personal happiness preference was small (average Cohen\u2019s ds = .20, range \u2212.02 to.48), but present in 98% of the studied countries, with statistical significance in 73% to 75%, and variance across countries &lt;2%. We also found that the size of this effect did vary somewhat across cultural contexts. 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