Subjective well-being (SWB) comprises a global evaluation of life satisfaction and positive
and negative affective reactions to one's life. Despite the apparent simplicity of this tripartite …

Since the publication of Peng and Nisbett's seminal paper on dialectical thinking, a
substantial amount of empirical research has replicated and expanded on the core finding …

Core Affect is a state accessible to consciousness as a single simple feeling (feeling good or
bad, energized or enervated) that can vary from moment to moment and that is the heart of …

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the psychology of emotion has grown to become its
own field of study. Because the study of emotion draws inspiration from areas of science …

Four studies examined the hypothesis that, although people may generally want to savor,
rather than to dampen, their positive emotions (ie, hedonic emotion regulation), such a …

Given the growing numbers of bicultural individuals in the United States and around the
world, bicultural identity integration (BII) is an important construct that helps researchers to …

There is much debate about the notion of emotional complexity (EC). The debate concerns
both the definition and the meaning of ostensible cultural differences in the construct. Some …

In this article, the authors integrate the seemingly disparate literature on culture and emotion
by offering a biocultural model of emotion that offers three premises heretofore not …

Previous studies have demonstrated that European Americans have fewer mixed affective
experiences (ie, are less likely to experience the bad with the good) compared with Chinese …

This chapter discusses the psychological and societal processes involved in the
phenomenon of multiculturalism. An emphasis is placed on reviewing and integrating …