The authors hypothesized that whereas Japanese culture encourages socially engaging emotions (e.g., friendly feelings and guilt), North American culture fosters socially disengaging emotions (e.g., pride and anger). In two cross-cultural studies, the authors measured engaging and disengaging emotions repeat-edly over different social situations and found support for this hypothesis. As predicted, Japanese showed a pervasive tendency to reportedly experience engaging emotions more strongly than they experienced disengaging emotions, but Americans showed a reversed tendency. Moreover, as also predicted, Japanese subjective well-being (i.e., the experience of general positive feelings) was more closely associated with the experience of engagin...
Recent research suggests that positive emotions are more often seen less often hidden and more often...
Nonverbal vocalizations of some emotions have been found to be recognizable both within and across c...
Past research generally suggests that East Asians tolerate opposing feelings or dialectical emotions...
The authors hypothesized that whereas Japanese culture encourages socially engaging emotions (e.g., ...
Previous studies indicated that North Americans tend to dominantly experience emotions that are more...
Previous studies suggest that Japanese self report experiencing emotions that are associated with ac...
The present study provides evidence of both cultural similarities and differences in the representat...
The present study provides evidence of both cultural similarities and differences in the representat...
In this study, we examined the degree of cultural similarity and specificity in emotional experience...
Two studies tested the idea that the situations that people encounter frequently and the situations ...
Positive and negative emotions are desired and experienced to different degrees in North America and...
In the present study, we tested the idea that emotions are afforded to the extent that they benefit ...
In the present study, we tested the idea that emotions are afforded to the extent that they benefit ...
Over the last decade, significant empirical research has examined the influence of culture on a vari...
In this study 3 hypotheses were tested concerning differences between the expression of emotions in ...
Recent research suggests that positive emotions are more often seen less often hidden and more often...
Nonverbal vocalizations of some emotions have been found to be recognizable both within and across c...
Past research generally suggests that East Asians tolerate opposing feelings or dialectical emotions...
The authors hypothesized that whereas Japanese culture encourages socially engaging emotions (e.g., ...
Previous studies indicated that North Americans tend to dominantly experience emotions that are more...
Previous studies suggest that Japanese self report experiencing emotions that are associated with ac...
The present study provides evidence of both cultural similarities and differences in the representat...
The present study provides evidence of both cultural similarities and differences in the representat...
In this study, we examined the degree of cultural similarity and specificity in emotional experience...
Two studies tested the idea that the situations that people encounter frequently and the situations ...
Positive and negative emotions are desired and experienced to different degrees in North America and...
In the present study, we tested the idea that emotions are afforded to the extent that they benefit ...
In the present study, we tested the idea that emotions are afforded to the extent that they benefit ...
Over the last decade, significant empirical research has examined the influence of culture on a vari...
In this study 3 hypotheses were tested concerning differences between the expression of emotions in ...
Recent research suggests that positive emotions are more often seen less often hidden and more often...
Nonverbal vocalizations of some emotions have been found to be recognizable both within and across c...
Past research generally suggests that East Asians tolerate opposing feelings or dialectical emotions...