How Much Information? East Asian and North American Cultural Products and Information Search Performance

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1539-1551

  Wang, Huaitang ^a   Masuda, Takahiko ^a   Ito, Kenichi ^a   Rashid, Marghalara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

conference posters; cultural products; East Asians; holistic versus analytic cognition; information rich versus information limited products; Internet portal pages; North Americans; skill development

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ART; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTENTION; CAUCASIAN; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ESTHETICS; ETHNOLOGY; FAR EAST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORTH AMERICA; ORGANIZATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STUDENT; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ART; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURE; ESTHETICS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAR EAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NORTH AMERICA; PHOTOGRAPHY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STUDENTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870220835     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167212455828     Document Type: Article

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