Culture, class and cognition: Evidence from Italy

Journal of Cognition and Culture

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 283-291

  Knight, Nicola ^a   Nisbett, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Class; Culture; Deductive reasoning; Italy; SES

Indexed keywords

EID: 41249101713     PISSN: 15677095     EISSN: 15685373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853707X208512     Document Type: Article

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