A taxonomy of situations from Chinese idioms

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 750-778

  Yang, Yu ^a   Read, Stephen J ^a   Miller, Lynn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese idioms; Goal processes; Person situation interactions; Situations; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748567411     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2005.09.007     Document Type: Article

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