Dialecticism and the co-occurrence of positive and negative emotions across cultures

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 109-115

  Spencer Rodgers, Julie ^a   Peng, Kaiping ^b,c   Wang, Lei ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Affect; Culture; East Asians; Emotion; Mixed emotions

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149120841     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022109349508     Document Type: Article

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