Culture and Judgment of Causal Relevance

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 46-59

  Choi, Incheol ^a   Dalal, Reeshad ^b   Kim Prieto, Chu ^b   Park, Hyekyung ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN;

CULTURE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT;

EID: 85047687734     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.84.1.46     Document Type: Article

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