What Is Implicit Self-Esteem, and Does it Vary Across Cultures?

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 177-198

  Falk, Carl F ^a   Heine, Steven J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

culture ethnicity; self presentation; self identity

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; HUMANS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84926136955     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: 15327957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088868314544693     Document Type: Article

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