American and Chinese college students' predictions of people's occupations, housework responsibilities, and hobbies as a function of cultural and gender influences

Sex Roles

Volumn 50, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 547-563

  Zhou, Ling Yi ^a   Dawson, Michelle L ^a   Herr, Candace L ^a   Stukas, Sarah K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Explicit and implicit information; Metapor; Sex and gender; Social prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843144831     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:sers.0000023074.30947.92     Document Type: Article

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