Social class, culture, and cognition

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-89

  Grossmann, Igor ^a   Varnum, Michael E W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Culture; Independence; Interdependence; Social class

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957791525     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550610377119     Document Type: Article

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