Feeling bad about being sad: The role of social expectancies in amplifying negative mood

Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-80

  Bastian, Brock ^a   Kuppens, Peter ^b,c   Hornsey, Matthew J ^a   Park, Joonha ^c   Koval, Peter ^b   Uchida, Yukiko ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Culture; Emotion norms; Expectancies; Ruminative self focus; Social appraisal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; EXPECTANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; MOOD; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIETY; THINKING; WELLBEING; AFFECT; ASIAN; AUSTRALIA; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; JAPAN; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION;

ADULT; AFFECT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864349955     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024755     Document Type: Article

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