Culture and Decisions

Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 504-524

  Choi, Incheol ^a   Choi, Jong An ^a   Norenzayan, Ara ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Cultural psychology; Information; Populations; Thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650774283     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470752937.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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