Emotions as within or between people? cultural variation in lay theories of emotion expression and inference

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1427-1439

  Uchida, Yukiko ^a   Townsend, Sarah S M ^b   Markus, Hazel Rose ^c   Bergsieker, Hilary B ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Culture; Emotion expression; Emotion inference; Relationships

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; AWARENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JAPAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECALL; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPORT; TELEVISION; UNITED STATES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; AWARENESS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL VALUES; SPORTS; TELEVISION; UNITED STATES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350314119     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167209347322     Document Type: Article

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