Cultural influences on the relation between pleasant emotions and unpleasant emotions: Asian dialectic philosophies or individualism-collectivism?

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 705-719

  Schimmack, Ulrich ^a   Oishi, Shigehiro ^a   Diener, Ed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENDER; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036828859     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930143000590     Document Type: Article

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