Essentializing the binary self: Individualism and collectivism in cultural neuroscience

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Martinez Mateo M ^a   Cabanis, M ^b   Stenmanns, J ^a   Krach, S ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; BINARITY; BRAIN MAPPING; CHINA; COLLECTIVISM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ESSENTIALISM; EUROCENTRISM; EUROPE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; INDIVIDUALITY; JAPAN; NEUROSCIENCE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84933677001     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00289     Document Type: Article

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