Cultural variation in reasoning

Biological and Cultural Bases of Human Inference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 71-95

  Norenzayan, Ara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203774908     Document Type: Chapter

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