Consequences of cultural fluency

Social Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 308-344

  Mourey, James A ^a   Lam, Ben C P ^b   Oyserman, Daphna ^c  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Culture; Fluency; Metacognitive experience; Situated cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941565590     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2015.33.4.308     Document Type: Article

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