Cultural construction of success and epistemic motives moderate American-Chinese differences in reward allocation biases

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 46-52

  Leung, Angela K Y ^a   Kim, Young Hoon ^b   Zhang, Zhi Xue ^c   Tam, Kim Pong ^d   Chiu, Chi yue ^e  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

culture; need for cognitive closure; other serving bias; self serving bias; success

Indexed keywords

EID: 83655164345     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022111405660     Document Type: Article

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