Emotions in "the world": Cultural practices, products, and meanings of anger and shame in two individualist cultures

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Boiger, Michael ^a   De Deyne, Simon ^a   Mesquita, Batja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Affordances; Anger; Cultural practices; Cultural products; Semantic associations; Shame

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891717266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00867     Document Type: Article

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