Does understanding behavior make it seem normal?: Perceptions of abnormality among Euro-Australians and Chinese-Singaporeans

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 286-298

  Ban, Lauren ^a   Kashima, Yoshi ^b   Haslam, Nick ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

abnormality; culture; distress idioms; normality; reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855598252     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022110385233     Document Type: Article

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