Implicit personality conceptions of the nguni cultural-linguistic groups of south africa

Cross-Cultural Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 235-266

  Valchev, Velichko H ^a   van de Vijver, Fons J R ^a,b   Nel, Jan ^b   Rothmann, Sebastiaan ^b   Meiring, Deon ^c   de Bruin, Gideon P ^d  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

culture and personality; implicit personality conceptions; Nguni; South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960369945     PISSN: 10693971     EISSN: 15523578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069397111402462     Document Type: Article

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