Impression management in survey responding: Easier for collectivists or individualists?

Journal of Consumer Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 157-168

  Riemer, Hila ^a   Shavitt, Sharon ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic processes; Collectivism; Effortful processes; Impression management; Individualism; Socially desirable responding

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953682795     PISSN: 10577408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcps.2010.10.001     Document Type: Article

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