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Anger, Blame, and Dimensions of Perceived Norm Violations: Culture, Gender, and Relationships
Author(s) -
Ohbuchi KenIchi,
Tamura Toru,
Quigley Brian M.,
Tedeschi James T.,
Madi Nawaf,
Bond Michael H.,
Mummendey Amelie
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2004.tb02788.x
Subject(s) - blame , closeness , psychology , anger , social psychology , feeling , norm (philosophy) , interpersonal communication , harm , political science , law , mathematical analysis , mathematics
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.