Explanations for cultural differences in thinking: Easterners’ dialectical thinking and Westerners’ linear thinking
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cognitive Psychology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2044-5911,2044-592X
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2019.1626862