Connecting and Separating Mind-Sets: Culture as Situated Cognition

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 217-235

  Oyserman, Daphna ^a   Sorensen, Nicholas ^a   Reber, Rolf ^b   Chen, Sylvia Xiaohua ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

collectivism; culture; independent; individualism; interdependent

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; KOREA; MALE; NORWAY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES;

ASIAN AMERICANS; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CUES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; KOREA; MALE; NORWAY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; STUDENTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67949086870     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015850     Document Type: Article

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