Culture and causal cognition

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 132-135

  Norenzayan, Ara ^a   Nisbett, Richard E ^b  

^a Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee Ecole Polytechnique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Causal attribution; Culture; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034348699     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.00077     Document Type: Article

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