A processing advantage associated with analytic perceptual tendencies: European Americans outperform Asians on multiple object tracking

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 766-769

  Savani, Krishna ^a   Markus, Hazel R ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic; Attention; Culture; Holistic; Multiple object tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858072036     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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