Helping strangers is lower in Embedded cultures

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 875-879

  Knafo, Ariel ^a   Schwartz, Shalom H ^a   Levine, Robert V ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural values; Culture; Embeddedness; Helping; Prosocial behavior; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350126582     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022109339211     Document Type: Article

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