The cultural psychology of control illusions of personal versus collective control in the United States and Japan

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 750-761

  Yamaguchi, Susumu ^a,c   Gelfand, Michele ^b   Ohashi, Megumi M ^a,d   Zemba, Yuriko ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c University of Tokyo ^*  (Japan)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^e Meiji Gakuin University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Control orientation; Cross cultural; Cultural psychology; Illusion of control

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744510321     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022105280513     Document Type: Review

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