Cultural effect on perspective taking in Chinese-English bilinguals

Cognition

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 350-355

  Luk, Kevin K S ^a   Xiao, Wen S ^a   Cheung, Him ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Culture; Culture priming; Perspective taking; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COMMUNICATION; CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIALIZATION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864075388     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.05.016     Document Type: Article

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