An upside to bicultural identity conflict: Resisting groupthink in cultural ingroups

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1114-1117

  Mok, Aurelia ^a   Morris, Michael W ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicultural identity; Conformity; Contrast; Group decision making; Judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956619823     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.05.020     Document Type: Article

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