Culture and the self: Uncovering the cultural grounding of psychological theory

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 818, Issue , 1997, Pages 217-231

  Miller, Joan G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; MORALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; EGO; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW;

CULTURE; EGO; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MORALS;

EID: 0030756998     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48257.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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