Gaze display when thinking depends on culture and context

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 716-729

  McCarthy, Anjanie ^a   Lee, Kang ^a   Itakura, Shoji ^b   Muir, Darwin W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Cultural display rules; Cultural psychology; Endogenous hypothesis; Gaze behavior; Social cognition; Social display rules hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349176459     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022108323807     Document Type: Article

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