Every science/nature potter praises his own pot-can we believe what he says based on his mother tongue?

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 125-130

  Li, Shu ^a   Bi, Yan Ling ^a,b   Rao, Li Lin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

language background; Nature; overconfidence; Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650016947     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022110383425     Document Type: Article

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