Cultural influences on categorization processes

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 662-688

  Unsworth, Sara J ^a   Sears, Christopher R ^b   Pexman, Penny M ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Categorization; Chinese; Culture; Relationships; Semantic activation; Semantic concepts; Similarity; Western

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744595077     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022105280509     Document Type: Review

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