Rugby versus Soccer in South Africa: Content familiarity contributes to cross-cultural differences in cognitive test scores

Intelligence

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 582-595

  Malda, Maike ^a   van de Vijver, Fons J R ^a,b   Temane, Q Michael ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cognition; Content familiarity; Culture; South Africa; Spearman's hypothesis; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958154296     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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