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Present status of research on group norms in Japan

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Translation from Japanese by Tomoyo Kamimura, assisted by Jay Jackson, of paper originally published in theJapanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1973,13, 63–68, approved by Professor Sasaki. We wish to thank the JJESP for permission to reprint, and the Office of Scientific and Scholarly Research of the Graduate School, University of Oregon, for providing funds to support the translation work.

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Sasaki, K., Jackson, J. Present status of research on group norms in Japan. Am J Commun Psychol 7, 147–158 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00894370

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