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2.2Conformity rates and mean ratings of discipline severity at Japanese universities
2.3Conformity rate in Asch (1956), mean conformity rate in the United States after Asch, and mean conformity rate in Japan
2.6Factor scores for Americans and Japanese (Triandis et al., 1993)
2.7Schematically illustrated theoretical predictions: classifications of the reviewed empirical studies when (A) the common view is correct and (B) when no real difference is present
2.8Actual results: classification of the forty-nine reviewed studies that directly compared Japanese and Americans on individualism/collectivism
3.1Proportions of junior high school students who had experience of being bullied
3.2A woodblock print depicting a scene of a classroom in the Edo period
3.4Warriors’ helmets in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
4.1A schematic illustration of the seniority wage and the performance-based wage as a function of age
4.3A schematic illustration of service duration as a function of age for lifetime employment and job-change patterns
4.5Percentage of respondents who wanted to do their best for their companies
4.6Proportions of loans provided for keiretsu companies by three types of financial institution in 1965
4.7Proportions of stocks of keiretsu companies owned by companies inside or outside the keiretsu in 1965
4.9Per capita imports from the USA by Japan and four European countries in 1991
6.1Schematic illustrations of a cultural stereotype (top panel) and actual data (bottom panel)
6.2Sample scattergrams when the correlation coefficient (r) is 1.0 and 0.3
6.4Estimated influence of culture, individual difference, and situation
