Do bilinguals have two personalities? A special case of cultural frame switching

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 99-120

  Ramírez Esparza, Nairán ^a   Gosling, Samuel D ^a   Benet Martínez, Verónica ^b   Potter, Jeffrey P ^c   Pennebaker, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Atof Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicultural; Bilinguals; Cultural frame switching; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645123847     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2004.09.001     Document Type: Article

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