کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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879299 | 1471321 | 2016 | 6 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• Culturally normative emotions help individuals to achieve important cultural tasks.
• Having culturally normative emotions is associated with greater wellbeing.
• Typically occurring interactions with others promote culturally normative emotions.
• Individuals from different cultures construct emotions out of different information.
• The emotions of immigrants exposed to a new culture acculturate.
A large body of anthropological and psychological research on emotions has yielded significant evidence that emotional experience is culturally constructed: people more commonly experience those emotions that help them to be a good and typical person in their culture. Moreover, experiencing these culturally normative emotions is associated with greater well-being. In this review, we summarize recent research showing how emotions are actively constructed to meet the demands of the respective cultural environment; we discuss collective as well as individual processes of construction. By focusing on cultural construction of emotion, we shift the focus toward how people from different cultures ‘do’ emotions and away from which emotions they ‘have’.
Journal: Current Opinion in Psychology - Volume 8, April 2016, Pages 31–36