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Experiencing negatively-perceived emotions might prompt people to withdraw from a social group - specifically, shame for individualistic societies, but anger for more collectivistic cultures

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Shame and anger differentially predict disidentification between collectivistic and individualistic societies

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Experiencing negatively-perceived emotions might prompt people to withdraw from a social group - specifically, shame for individualistic societies, but anger for more collectivistic cultures

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0289918

Article Title: Shame and anger differentially predict disidentification between collectivistic and individualistic societies

Author Countries: Germany, Japan, Canada

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.


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