TY - JOUR
T1 - Anger, blame, and dimensions of perceived norm violations
T2 - Culture, gender, and relationships
AU - Ohbuchi, Ken Ichi
AU - Tamura, Toru
AU - Quigley, Brian M.
AU - Tedeschi, James T.
AU - Madi, Nawaf
AU - Bond, Michael H.
AU - Mummendey, Amelie
PY - 2004/8
Y1 - 2004/8
N2 - From a social cognitive perspective on anger, we attempted to examine the structure of perceived norm violations and their relationships with anger. We asked 884 university students from 4 countries (United States, Germany, Japan, and Hong Kong) to rate their experiences of being harmed in terms of norm violations, angry feelings, blame, and relationship with the harm doers. We found 2 culturally common dimensions in perceived norm violations (informal interpersonal norms and formal societal norms), and these dimensions substantially increased both angry feelings and blame in almost all cultural groups. The violation of interpersonal norms generally evoked anger more frequently than that of societal norms, but there were interactions between culture and relationship closeness and between gender and relationship closeness.
AB - From a social cognitive perspective on anger, we attempted to examine the structure of perceived norm violations and their relationships with anger. We asked 884 university students from 4 countries (United States, Germany, Japan, and Hong Kong) to rate their experiences of being harmed in terms of norm violations, angry feelings, blame, and relationship with the harm doers. We found 2 culturally common dimensions in perceived norm violations (informal interpersonal norms and formal societal norms), and these dimensions substantially increased both angry feelings and blame in almost all cultural groups. The violation of interpersonal norms generally evoked anger more frequently than that of societal norms, but there were interactions between culture and relationship closeness and between gender and relationship closeness.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2004.tb02788.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2004.tb02788.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:10844229284
VL - 34
SP - 1587
EP - 1603
JO - Journal of Applied Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Applied Social Psychology
SN - 0021-9029
IS - 8
ER -