The Effect of Researchers' Focus on Interpretation of Diversity Data.
The tendency for intercultural researchers to focus primarily on cultural differences instead of both differences and similarities may reflect the emphasis of current statistical methodology toward cultural distance instead of cultural overlap. The authors proposed the cultural similarity index as a...
| Published in: | Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 142; no. 3; pp. 277 - 294 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
June 2002
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