Culture, Temporal Focus, and Values of the Past and the Future

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1030-1040

  Guo, Tieyuan ^a   Ji, Li Jun ^b   Spina, Roy ^c   Zhang, Zhiyong ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

culture; past and future; temporal focus; temporal values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864124906     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167212443895     Document Type: Article

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