Successful or friendly? Inferring achievement and relational competence from individualist and collectivist attitudes

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-36

  Green, Eva G T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Achievement; Horizontal and vertical collectivism; Horizontal and vertical individualism; Internality norm; Judge paradigm; Relational competence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645760156     PISSN: 14210185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/1421-0185.65.1.25     Document Type: Article

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