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This paper undertakes three tasks. First, we describe Americans’ cultural model—their everyday understandings—of embarrassment. Second, we relate their understandings to claims about the cross-cultural variability of self-concepts — especially to the debate over egocentric versus sociocentric notions of the self. Third, we discuss the implications of our research for theories linking culture and emotion.1
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Holland, D., Kipnis, A. (1995). American Cultural Models of Embarrassment. In: Russell, J.A., Fernández-Dols, JM., Manstead, A.S.R., Wellenkamp, J.C. (eds) Everyday Conceptions of Emotion. NATO ASI Series, vol 81. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8484-5_10
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