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Project

Do cultural groups differ in the practice of and the poteniality to guilt and shame?
Code
01J15507
Duration
01 January 2007 → 31 October 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Applied psychology
    • Biological and physiological psychology
    • General psychology
    • Social psychology
    • Other psychology and cognitive sciences
Keywords
shame cross-cultural emotion research guilt
 
Project description

The established hypothesis in anthropology and cross-cultural psychology that cultures differ in the relative salience of guilt and shame is investigated in a set of very diverse countries. The research is executed from emotion-psychological and cross-cultural perspectives. Cultural differences in both practice of and potentiality to guilt and shame are looked at.