Situational differences in dialectical emotions: Boundary conditions in a cultural comparison of North Americans and East Asians

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 419-435

  Leu, Janxin ^a   Mesquita, Batja ^b   Ellsworth, Phoebe C ^c   Zhiyong, Zhang ^d   Huijuan, Yuan ^d   Buchtel, Emma ^e   Karasawa, Mayumi ^f   Masuda, Takahiko ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f TOKYO WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Culture; Dialectical emotions; Pleasant and unpleasant emotions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTIONALITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LONELINESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EID: 77950996886     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930802650911     Document Type: Article

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