Culture, category salience, and inductive reasoning

Cognition

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-32

  Choi, Incheol ^a   Nisbett, Richard E ^a   Smith, Edward E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Category salience; Culture; Inductive reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; KOREA; PROBLEM SOLVING; UNITED STATES;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; HUMANS; KOREA; PROBLEM SOLVING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031307774     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(97)00034-6     Document Type: Article

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