Number of siblings in childhood explains cultural variance in autobiographical memory in Cameroon, people's republic of China, and Germany

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 998-1017

  Bender, Michael ^a   Chasiotis, Athanasios ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

autobiographical memory; childhood context; cognitive complexity; evolutionary developmental psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960231776     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022110381127     Document Type: Article

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