Personal and collective culpability judgment: A functional analysis of East Asian-North American differences

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 730-744

  Chao, Melody Manchi ^a   Zhang, Zhi Xue ^b   Chiu, Chi Yue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Collective responsibility; Culpability judgment; Culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349173078     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022108323788     Document Type: Article

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