Cultural differences in retrieval of self-defining memories

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-80

  Jobson, Laura ^a   O'Kearney, Richard ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Cultural orientation; Memory elaboration; Self

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349103621     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022107312073     Document Type: Article

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