Anger elicitation in Tonga and Germany: The impact of culture on cognitive determinants of emotions
The cognitive appraisal of an event is crucial for the elicitation and differentiation of emotions, and causal attributions are an integral part of this process. In an interdisciplinary project comparing Tonga and Germany, we examined how cultural differences in attribution tendencies affect emotion...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-10-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00435/full |