Cultural differences related to positive and negative valence

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 68-76

  Noguchi, Kenji ^a,c   Gohm, Carol L ^a   Dalsky, David J ^a   Sakamoto, Shinji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Culture; Individual differences; Negative valence; Positive valence

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248329907     PISSN: 13672223     EISSN: 1467839X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-839X.2007.00213.x     Document Type: Article

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