Establishing Commonality Versus Affirming Distinctiveness: Patterns of Personality Judgments in China and the United States

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 389-397

  Locke, Kenneth D ^a   Zheng, Dianhan ^a   Smith, Juliane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

assumed similarity; cross cultural differences; individualism collectivism; person perception; self other agreement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898909594     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550613506718     Document Type: Article

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