Beyond essentialism: Cultural differences in emotions revisited.

• DOI: 10.1037/emo0000390
• Publication Date: 2018-02-01T18:14:59Z
• Authors: Michael Boiger; Eva Ceulemans; Jozefien De Leers...; Yukiko Uchida; Vinai Norasakkunkit; Batja Mesquita
• Keywords: Shame; PsycINFO

The current research offers an alternative to essentialism for studying cultural variation in emotional experience. Rather than assuming that individuals always experience emotion the same way, our starting point was of like anger or shame may vary from one instance another. We expected find different and types, is, groups people who differ instances they proposed differences means distribution these types across contexts: There should be systematic are most common each culture. Students United States, Japan, Belgium (N = 928) indicated their experiences terms appraisals action tendencies response 15 hypothetical situations. Using inductive clustering approach, we identified were characterized by patterns As expected, found differed three Of two Japan States Belgium; prevalent a context. Participants' primarily predicted culture origin (with accuracy 72.3% 74.0% shame) not, much less, ethnic origin, socioeconomic status, gender, self-construal, personality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).