Culture Three Ways: Culture and Subcultures Within Countries

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2017, Pages 435-463

  Oyserman, Daphna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural fluency; Cultural mindset; Culture as situated cognition; Culture priming; Honor

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY;

COGNITION; CULTURE; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY;

EID: 85009213153     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: 15452085     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-122414-033617     Document Type: Article

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