Cultural Directions and Origins of Everyday Decisions

Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 235-242

  Pillai, Punya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Decision making; Etic emic; Individualism collectivism; Intercultural research; The self

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860481038     PISSN: 19324502     EISSN: 19363567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12124-012-9196-9     Document Type: Article

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