Defending honour, keeping face: Interpersonal affordances of anger and shame in Turkey and Japan

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1255-1269

  Boiger, Michael ^a   Güngör, Derya ^a   Karasawa, Mayumi ^b   Mesquita, Batja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b TOKYO WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Affordances; Anger; Culture; Face; Honour; Shame

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JAPAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHAME; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

ANGER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JAPAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SHAME; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905109301     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2014.881324     Document Type: Article

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