"Express yourself": Culture and the effect of self-expression on choice

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-11

  Kim, Heejung S ^a   Sherman, David K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Choice; Cultural beliefs; Cultural differences; Culture; East Asians; Expression; Preference judgments; Self; Values

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; EGO; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KOREA; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN AMERICANS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE; CALIFORNIA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EGO; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 33845998165     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.92.1.1     Document Type: Article

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