"We're having a good (or bad) day": Differences in emotional synchrony in married couples in the United States and India

Family Science

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 203-211

  Randall, Ashley K ^a   Corkery, Shannon A ^a   Duggi, Deepti ^b   Kamble, Shanmukh V ^b   Butler, Emily A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b KARNATAK UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Close relationships; Culture; Emotion regulation; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868255368     PISSN: 19424620     EISSN: 19424639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2012.665378     Document Type: Article

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