Honesty, Trust and Economic Growth: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Western Industrialized Countries

Zeitschrift fur Sozialpsychologie

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 189-200

  Fetchenhauer, Detlef ^a,b   Van Der Vegt, Gerben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Dept of Social and Org Psychology ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Social capital; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035641271     PISSN: 00443514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024//0044-3514.32.3.189     Document Type: Article

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