On the social cost of interdependence: Alexithymia is enhanced among socially interdependent people

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 135-141

  Konrath, Sara ^a   Grynberg, Delphine ^b   Corneille, Olivier ^b   Hammig, Sara ^c   Luminet, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Collectivism; Emotion; Independence; Individualism; Interdependence; Self construal

Indexed keywords

EID: 78249261527     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.09.008     Document Type: Article

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