Generality and cultural variation in the experience of regret

Emotion

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1037-1048

  Breugelmans, Seger M ^a,b   Zeelenberg, Marcel ^a,b   Gilovich, Thomas ^c   Huang, Wen Hsien ^d   Shani, Yaniv ^e  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Higher School of Economics   (Russian Federation)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^d NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Culture; Disappointment; Guilt; Regret

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL VARIATION; DECISION MAKING; DISAPPOINTMENT; EMOTION; EMOTION ASSESSMENT; EMOTIONALITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GUILT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; ISRAEL; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGRET; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; ISRAEL; MALE; NETHERLANDS; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922559992     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0038221     Document Type: Article

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