Cross-cultural differences in self-assessed intelligence: A comparison of british and chinese undergraduates

Psychologia

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-27

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Tu, Bei Lin ^a   Swami, Viren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Self assessed intelligence; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860144376     PISSN: 00332852     EISSN: 13475916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2117/psysoc.2012.21     Document Type: Article

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