Culture moderates the pliability of ambivalent attitudes

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1313-1324

  Ng, Andy H ^a   Hynie, Michaela ^a   MacDonald, Tara K ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attitudes and attitude change; Attitudinal ambivalence; Cross cultural differences; East Asian

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871257884     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022111429718     Document Type: Article

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