Culture and Emotions Flashcards
Despite the words being used interchangeably,___________ are actually two different but connected
phenomena
emotions
and feelings
originate as sensations in the
body
Emotions
_____ are influenced by our emotions but are
generated from our mental thoughts.
Feelings
Feelings form when your brain assigns meaning
to the emotional experience that you are having.
memorize
memorize 2
Feelings are our learned response to an
emotional trigger
memorize 3
Feelings are conscious experiences of sometimes unconscious emotions — often
because of trauma
influences,regulates, and manages the biologically based, innateemotion systems humans come to the world with, andrevisiting how human cultures have evolved may help in understanding why this occurs.
Cultural Influences on Emotion Culture
Human social life is ________
complex
Scherer & Wallbott, 1994 examine the subjective experiences across cultures concluded that there are strong and consistent differences between the reaction patterns for the seven emotions and that these are independent of the country studied.
Universality in Subjective Emotional Experience
In other words, there were _________, providing evidencefor universal, psychobiological emotional patterning insubjective response.
were many more similarities in the responses across thecultures than there were differences
govern how universal
emotions can be expressed. These rules center on the
appropriateness of displaying emotion, depending on
social circumstances.
Culturally prescribed rules
There are multiple ways in which display rules can act to
modify expressions.
deamplification
amplification
neutralization
qualification
masking
simulation
express less than actually felt
deamplification
express more than actually felt
amplification
show nothing
neutralization
show the emotion but with another emotion to
comment on it
qualification
mask or conceal feelings by showing something
else
masking
show an emotion when they really don’t feel it
simulation
which refers to pleasure derived
from another’s misfortunes. There is no exact
English translation for this word. German
Schadenfreude
longing for an absent loved one. Japanese
itoshii
a feeling associated with seeing someone
praiseworthy overcoming an obstacle. Japanese
ijirashii
dependence. Japanese
amae
can be described
sometimes as anger and sometimes as sadness
Ifaluk word song
may be a word with no exact
equivalent in Arabic languages
Frustration
In the United States, emotions are associated
with the .
heart
For the Japanese, emotions are in the
hara—the
gut or abdomen.
The Chewong of Malay group feelings and
thoughts in the
liver
Tahitians locate emotions as arising from the
intestines
The closest Ifaluk word to the English word
emotion is niferash, which translates as
“our
insides”
