Cultural Differences and Switching of In-Group Sharing Behavior Between an American (Facebook) and a Chinese (Renren) Social Networking Site

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 106-121

  Qiu, Lin ^a   Lin, Han ^a   Leung, Angela K Y ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

acculturation; communication; cross cultural differences; cultural frame switching; cultural psychology; Facebook; social networking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871008282     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022111434597     Document Type: Article

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