Cultural differences in judgment of truthful and deceptive messages

Western Journal of Communication

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 294-315

  Park, Hee Sun ^a   Ahn, Ji Young ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Culture; Deception; Estimation; Truth

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749019122     PISSN: 10570314     EISSN: 17451027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10570310701672877     Document Type: Article

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