"Japanese collectivism" and "American individualism": Reexamining the dominant view

Japanese Journal of Psychology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 312-327

  Takano, Yohtaro ^a   Osaka, Eiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collectivism; Fundamental attribution error; Individualism; Japan; United states

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040576760     PISSN: 00215236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4992/jjpsy.68.312     Document Type: Article

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