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Using Asians/Asian Americans as my target demographic, I tested the general hypothesis that Asians/Asian Americans will be more likely to respond to insult or derogatory treatment in a productive way through increased effort, in a phenomena I have called the “I will show you” effect. Meta-analysis of effect sizes across three studies showed that there was a marginal effect of culture x insult interaction (z = 1.86, p = .06, r = .07) where Asian Americans showed a significant effect of insult manipulation in performance boost (z = 3.07, p = .002). This effect was not found among Anglo Americans (z = .40, p = .69). More research is needed in narrowing the gap between what does (or does not) stand in the way of translating the insult-based motivational script into an actual performance boost. 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