Helfrich's 'principle of triarchic resonance': A commentary on yet another perspective on the ongoing and tenacious etic-emic debate

Culture and Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 173-181

  Lonner, Walter J ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural psychology; Etic vs emic approaches; Generalizability of psychological findings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033244507     PISSN: 1354067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354067X9952005     Document Type: Review

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