Cultural chameleons and iconoclasts: Assimilation and reactance to cultural cues in biculturals' expressed personalities as a function of identity conflict

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 884-889

  Mok, Aurelia ^a   Morris, Michael W ^a  

^a The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian American; Bicultural identity integration; Cultural priming; Personality; Self perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650729709     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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