Looking Into the Past: Cultural Differences in Perception and Representation of Past Information

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 761-769

  Ji, Li Jun ^a   Guo, Tieyuan ^a   Zhang, Zhiyong ^b   Messervey, Deanna ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

culture; temporal information

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANADA; CAUCASIAN; CHINA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; STUDENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AWARENESS; CANADA; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65349095103     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014498     Document Type: Article

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