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Majorities’ emotions acculturate too: The role of intergroup friendships and clarity of minority emotion norms KU Leuven
When people come into contact with members of a new/other culture, their emotions may acculturate. In support of this idea, previous research has found that the emotions of immigrant minorities who have frequent contact with majority culture members, fit the majority emotion norms better than those who have less contact. Little is known about the possibility of majority members’ emotions acculturating towards the emotion norms in the minority ...
What we can learn about emotion by talking with the Hadza KU Leuven
Emotions are often thought of as internal mental states centering on individuals' subjective feelings and evaluations. This understanding is consistent with studies of emotion narratives, or the descriptions people give for experienced events that they regard as emotions. Yet these studies, and contemporary psychology more generally, often rely on observations of educated Europeans and European Americans, constraining psychological theory and ...
Show me your friends, I’ll tell you your emotions: Emotional fit of immigrant-origin minority youth in cross-cultural friendship networks. KU Leuven
The typical emotional responses to certain types of situations differ across cultures. Being reprimanded by your teacher in front of the class may be cause for anger and indignation among pupils in one cultural context, but for anger, shame, and possibly respect for the teacher among pupils in another cultural context. The consequence for immigrant-origin minorities is that they may not fit the emotions of the majority culture. Previous research ...
Against Happiness KU Leuven
The relational dynamics of anger and shame: scripts for emotional interactions in Germany and Japan KU Leuven
Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions KU Leuven
Relatively Happy: The Role of the Positive-to-Negative Affect Ratio in Japanese and Belgian Couples KU Leuven
Satisfied couples in European-American cultural contexts experience higher ratios of positive to negative affect during interactions than their less satisfied counterparts. The current research tests the possibility that this finding is culture-bound. It compares proportions of positive to negative affect during couple interactions in two different cultural contexts: Belgium and Japan. Whereas Belgian relationship goals (e.g., mutual affirmation ...