Culture and Mixed Emotions: Co-Occurrence of Positive and Negative Emotions in Japan and the United States

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 404-415

  Miyamoto, Yuri ^a   Uchida, Yukiko ^b   Ellsworth, Phoebe C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

appraisal; co occurrence of positive and negative emotions; culture; mixed emotions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; GUILT; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; JAPAN; JEALOUSY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LONELINESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; RECALL; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; SHAME; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UNITED STATES; UNPLEASANT SENSATION;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953282219     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018430     Document Type: Article

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