The Self-assessment of Immediacy scale was administered to 165 Japanese, 229 Finnish, and 147 American university students. The Japanese scored significantly differently from the Finns and Americans, whose means were not significantly different from each other. Means for the women in the three groups were significantly different from the men's.
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