Lecture 14/15: Culture and emotion Flashcards
Reserach: cultural diff in perception of facial expressions
Ekman et al 1969 - Found those from pNG were reasonably good at recognizing US facial expressions and vice versa
Research: reading emotions from faces in teo indigenous societies
Crivelli et al 2016 -
They did better than chance on happiness but performance on the other expressions was much poorer and not significantly better than chance in some cases
- claimed that there were two dimensions of personality
Crivelli et al 2016 - two dimensions of emotions
Valence: how positive or negative emotion is
Activation: level of activity associated with emotion
Research: are emotions innate?
Galati et al 2003
Looked at blind children - found that facial expressions produced by blind people were similar to that of children who could see
Reserach: Pride
Tracy and Robins 2008 - all three countries studied able to identify pride expression (argued this was universal)
Tracy and Matumoto 2008 - looked at gold medalist from countries in olympics - same pride expression commonly adopted
Research: fear
Chiao 2008
- Found the same amygdala response for US and J p regardless of the stimuli
- However, they did find that the amygdala response was stronger when looking at the stimuli from own ethnic group
Reserach: similarities between culutres with ratings on emotional experiences
Matsumoto et al 1988
- rated emotions similairy and agreed on the morality behind emotions (but found higher personal intensity)
Reserach: differences in culture and emotional lives
Mesquita and karasawa 2002
A rated emotional lives as more pleasant and intense (thought to be due to the diff types of culture inter/individualistic)
Research: collectivist and individualistic cultures
Boiger et al 2018
- collectivist people, their emotions are apart of the social network and the groups around them somewhat depending on the connections to the people around you. However, the emotions of those in individualistic cultures are more likely to experience emotions that relate to themselves, internally
Research: frequency of positive and negative feelings Kitayama et al 2000
After being given a list of 31 emotions A and J p rated frequency of feelings these - A p reported more positive emotions. Also found A had pos disengaged emotions and J pos engaged emotions
Importance of dis/engagement Uchida et al 2009
Found J people emotion understood as between people and not inner experiences - they just perceive emotion differently to A.
Cultural differences in ideal positive emotions Tsai et al 2006
Pos feelings can vary from high and low arousal: EA and AA valued high arousal emotions more so than HK C p did
How much do these positive feelings matter? Uchida and kitayama 2009
When writing down different features of happiness
- pos feelings, feelings and actions (majority A)
- happiness aids avoidance: majority J
- envry/not thinking ab others: Majority J
