Evidence for universality and cultural variation of differential emotion response patterning. Export

@article{citeulike:305241, abstract = {The major controversy concerning psychobiological universality of differential emotion patterning versus cultural relativity of emotional experience is briefly reviewed. Data from a series of cross-cultural questionnaire studies in 37 countries on 5 continents are reported and used to evaluate the respective claims of the proponents in the debate. Results show highly significant main effects and strong effect sizes for the response differences across 7 major emotions (joy, fear, anger, sadness, disgust, shame, and guilt). Profiles of cross-culturally stable differences among the emotions with respect to subjective feeling, physiological symptoms, and expressive behavior are also reported. The empirical evidence is interpreted as supporting theories that postulate both a high degree of universality of differential emotion patterning and important cultural differences in emotion elicitation, regulation, symbolic representation, and social sharing.}, address = {Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland.}, author = {Scherer, K. R. and Wallbott, H. G.}, citeulike-article-id = {305241}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8195988}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=8195988}, comment = {additional to Cultural Psychology/Week 2}, issn = {0022-3514}, journal = {J Pers Soc Psychol}, keywords = {additional}, month = {February}, number = {2}, pages = {310--328}, posted-at = {2006-07-17 02:08:33}, priority = {2}, title = {Evidence for universality and cultural variation of differential emotion response patterning.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8195988}, volume = {66}, year = {1994} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:305241 L3 - citeulike-article-id:305241 N2 - The major controversy concerning psychobiological universality of differential emotion patterning versus cultural relativity of emotional experience is briefly reviewed. Data from a series of cross-cultural questionnaire studies in 37 countries on 5 continents are reported and used to evaluate the respective claims of the proponents in the debate. Results show highly significant main effects and strong effect sizes for the response differences across 7 major emotions (joy, fear, anger, sadness, disgust, shame, and guilt). Profiles of cross-culturally stable differences among the emotions with respect to subjective feeling, physiological symptoms, and expressive behavior are also reported. The empirical evidence is interpreted as supporting theories that postulate both a high degree of universality of differential emotion patterning and important cultural differences in emotion elicitation, regulation, symbolic representation, and social sharing. IS - 2 JF - J Pers Soc Psychol SN - 0022-3514 AD - Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland. EP - 328 TI - Evidence for universality and cultural variation of differential emotion response patterning. VL - 66 SP - 310 KW - additional N1 - additional to Cultural Psychology/Week 2 AU - Scherer, KR AU - Wallbott, HG PY - 1994/02// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8195988 ER -