Will people work hard on a task they choose? Social-eyes priming in different cultural contexts

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 284-290

  Na, Jinkyung ^a   Kitayama, Shinobu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Culture; Independence; Interdependence; Motivation; Self

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655181791     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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