The World at 7:00: Comparing the Experience of Situations Across 20 Countries

Journal of Personality

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 493-509

  Guillaume, Esther ^a   Baranski, Erica ^a   Todd, Elysia ^a   Bastian, Brock ^b   Bronin, Igor ^c   Ivanova, Christina ^c   Cheng, Joey T ^d   de Kock, François S ^e   Denissen, Jaap J A ^f   Gallardo Pujol, David ^g   Halama, Peter ^h   Han, Gyuseog Q ⁱ   Bae, Jaechang ⁱ   Moon, Jungsoon ⁱ   Hong, Ryan Y ^j   Hřebíčková, Martina ^k   Graf, Sylvie ^k   Izdebski, Paweł ^l   Lundmann, Lars ^m   Penke, Lars ⁿ   Perugini, Marco ^o   Costantini, Giulio ^o   Rauthmann, John ^p   Ziegler, Matthias ^p   Realo, Anu ^q   Elme, Liisalotte ^q   Sato, Tatsuya ^r   Kawamoto, Shizuka ^r   Szarota, Piotr ^s   Tracy, Jessica L ^t   van Aken, Marcel A G ^u   Yang, Yu ^v   Funder, David C ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^f TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^h INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

ⁱ Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^j NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^k INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^l KAZIMIERZ WIELKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^m UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^p HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^q UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^r Ritsumeikan University

^s POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^t UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^u UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^v CHINA EUROPE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (China)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; Q-SORT; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85027956783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12176     Document Type: Article

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