Katherine B. Curhan   Cynthia S. Levine   Hazel Rose Markus   Shinobu Kitayama   Jiyoung Park   Mayumi Karasawa   Norito Kawakami   Gayle D. Love   Christopher L. Coe   Yuri Miyamoto   Carol D. Ryff   
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE 5(8) 855-864 Nov 2014 [Refereed]
Hierarchy can be conceptualized as objective social status (e.g., education level) or subjective social status (i.e., one's own judgment of one's status). Both forms predict well-being. This is the first investigation of the relative strength of t...
Igor Grossmann   Mayumi Karasawa   Chiemi Kan   Shinobu Kitayama   
EMOTION 14(4) 679-692 Aug 2014 [Refereed]
Past research suggests that older adults place a greater priority on goals of maintaining positive experiences and distancing from negative experiences. We hypothesized that these aging-related differences in emotional experiences are more pronoun...
Chiemi Kan   Norito Kawakami   Mayumi Karasawa   Gayle Dienberg Love   Christopher L. Coe   Yuri Miyamoto   Carol D. Ryff   Shinobu Kitayama   Katherine B. Curhan   Hazel Rose Markus   
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE 21(1) 53-65 Feb 2014 [Refereed]
Background Recently, researchers have proposed that psychological resources might be key concept in explaining the association between social class and health. However, empirical examinations of the extent to which psychological resources to socia...
In the present study, we tested the idea that emotions are afforded to the extent that they benefit central cultural concerns. We predicted that emotions that are beneficial for the Turkish concern for defending honour (both anger and shame) are a...
Jiyoung Park   Shinobu Kitayama   Hazel R. Markus   Christopher L. Coe   Yuri Miyamoto   Mayumi Karasawa   Katherine B. Curhan   Gayle D. Love   Norito Kawakami   Jennifer Morozink Boylan   Carol D. Ryff   
Emotion 13(6) 1122-1131 Dec 2013 [Refereed]
Individuals with lower social status have been reported to express more anger, but this evidence comes mostly from Western cultures. Here, we used representative samples of American and Japanese adults and tested the hypothesis that the associatio...
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 91(5) 890-903 Nov 2006
The authors hypothesized that whereas Japanese culture encourages socially engaging emotions (e.g., friendly feelings and guilt), North American culture fosters socially disengaging emotions (e.g., pride and anger). In two cross-cultural studies, ...