When conveying a message may hurt the relationship: Cultural differences in the difficulty of using an answering machine

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 540-547

  Miyamoto, Yuri ^a   Schwarz, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

An answering machine; Communication; Culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744542270     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2005.09.001     Document Type: Article

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