Social Anxiety and Holistic Cognition: Self-Focused Social Anxiety in the United States and Other-Focused Social Anxiety in Japan

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 742-757

  Norasakkunkit, Vinai ^a   Kitayama, Shinobu ^b   Uchida, Yukiko ^c  

^a MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

culture; self construal; social anxiety; social phobia; Taijinkyofusho

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862147407     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022111405658     Document Type: Article

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