Cultural affordances and emotional experience: Socially engaging and disengaging emotions in Japan and the United States

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 890-903

  Kitayama, Shinobu ^a   Mesquita, Batja ^b   Karasawa, Mayumi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TOKYO WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Culture; Disengaging; Emotion; Self; Socially engaging emotions; Well being

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EGO; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENT; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EGO; EMOTIONS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750378856     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.91.5.890     Document Type: Article

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