Abstract
The overall aim of the present study was to determine Japanese young people's beliefs about their general emotional expressive tendencies (i.e., applied display rules) for selected groups of emotions in face-to-face interactions with their peer friends and acquaintances and when communicating on social networking sites. The findings indicate that in the studied social contexts the expressiveness of emotional display is believed to be positively related to the speaker's relative closeness to and liking for the interaction partner.
The reported openness and frequency of display of the individual types of emotions suggest an inclination towards the affirmation and reinforcement of interdependent self construal. Women's and men's self-reported emotional expressive tendencies were found to be closely comparable, but showed certain systematic differences, which satisfy broad gender stereotypes.