Research on Implicit Motives Across Cultures

Implicit Motives

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hofer, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bias; Collective level; Cross cultural research; Implicit motives; Individual level

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960733143     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335156.003.0015     Document Type: Chapter

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