Culture and the construal of agency: Attribution to individual versus group dispositions

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 701-717

  Menon, Tanya ^b   Morris, Michael W ^a   Chiu, Chi Yue ^b   Hong, Ying Yi ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0001344171     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.76.5.701     Document Type: Article

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