Citizens of warmer countries are more competitive and poorer: Culture or chance?

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 143-165

  Van De Vliert, Evert ^a   Kluwer, Esther S ^a   Lynn, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

4070; Competition; Cross cultural differences; F0; Income level; Masculinity; Temperature effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038524313     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4870(99)00040-9     Document Type: Article

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