Do verbs and adjectives play different roles in different cultures? A cross-linguistic analysis of person representation

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 734-750

  Maass, Anne ^a   Karasawa, Minoru ^b   Politi, Federica ^a   Suga, Sayaka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adjectives; Cognition; Cultural differences; Culture; Inferences; Language abstraction; Person description; Person perception; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; JAPAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; JAPAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33745208446     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.90.5.734     Document Type: Article

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