Introduction: Culture and the Self-Enhancement Bias

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 492-495

  Brown, Jonathon D ^a   Kobayashi, Chihiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0041917330     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022103256473     Document Type: Editorial

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