More on the Social Sharing of Emotion: In Defense of the Individual, of Culture, of Private Disclosure, and in Rebuttal of an Old Couple of Ghosts Known as “Cognition and Emotion”

Emotion Review

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 94-96

  Rimé, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

culture; disclosure; emotion; emotion regulation; social sharing; verbalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993804953     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073908099132     Document Type: Article

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