Cultural modes of seeing through cultural modes of being: Cultural influences on visual attention

Social Psychology of Visual Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 51-75

  Duffy, Sean ^a   Kitayama, Shinobu ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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