From ugly duckling to swan?. Japanese and American beliefs about the stability and origins of traits

Cognitive Development

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 155-179

  Lockhart, Kristi L ^a   Nakashima, Nobuko ^b   Inagaki, Kayoko ^c   Keil, Frank C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Essentialism; Person perception; Social cognition; Traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949137086     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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