Social axioms and achievement across cultures: The influence of reward for application and fate control

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 366-371

  Zhou, Fan ^a   Leung, Kwok ^b   Bond, Michael Harris ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Achievement; Axioms; Culture; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355140710     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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