Cultural differences in self-verification: The role of naïve dialecticism

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 860-866

  Spencer Rodgers, Julie ^a   Boucher, Helen C ^b   Peng, Kaiping ^c,d   Wang, Lei ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese cultural groups; Cross cultural differences; Dialecticism; East Asian cultural groups; Self concept; Self verification

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650786727     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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