Dampening or Savoring Positive Emotions: A Dialectical Cultural Script Guides Emotion Regulation

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1346-1357

  Miyamoto, Yuri ^a   Ma, Xiaoming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Dialectical cultural script; Emotion change; Emotion regulation; Retrospective and online measures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIAL BELIEF;

ASIAN AMERICANS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83755163578     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025135     Document Type: Article

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