Emotional Expression and Physiology in European Americans and Hmong Americans

Emotion

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 380-397

  Tsai, Jeanne L ^a   Chentsova Dutton, Yulia ^a   Freire Bebeau, Liliana ^b   Przymus, Diane E ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAOS; LIFE EVENT; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ASIAN AMERICANS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; LAOS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SMILING; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0142124902     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.2.4.380     Document Type: Article

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