Cultural differences are not always reducible to individual differences

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 6192-6197

  Na, Jinkyung ^a   Grossmann, Igor ^a   Varnum, Michael E W ^a   Kitayama, Shinobu ^a   Gonzalez, Richard ^a   Nisbett, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive style; Culture; Personality trait; Social orientation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HOLISTIC CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERVIEW; ORIENTATION; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL CLASS; TELEPHONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CULTURE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77950891186     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001911107     Document Type: Article

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