Culture and judgment and decision making: The constructivist turn

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 410-419

  Weber, Elke U ^a   Morris, Michael W ^a  

^a The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Judgment and decision making; Preference construction; Social construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751472746     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691610375556     Document Type: Review

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