Maslow most clearly interjected his own personal values into his study of self-actualized individuals by: selectively studying people with qualities he admired selectively studying people with qualities he admired interpreting their flattering self-descriptions as a self-serving bias interpreting their flattering self-descriptions as a self-serving bias overemphasizing the value of their loyalty to cultural norms overemphasizing the value of their loyalty to cultural norms using projective tests to assess their motives