A Cultural Psychology of Agency: Morality, Motivation, and Reciprocity

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 867-875

  Miller, Joan G ^a   Goyal, Namrata ^a   Wice, Matthew ^a  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

agency; cultural psychology; morality; motivation; reciprocity

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; AWARENESS; CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE (CITIZEN); MORALITY; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STANDING; THEORETICAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN RELATION; ORGANIZATION;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MORALS; MOTIVATION; ORGANIZATIONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 85030671183     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691617706099     Document Type: Article

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