Journal
EMOTION
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages 404-415Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0018430
Keywords
culture; mixed emotions; co-occurrence of positive and negative emotions; appraisal
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19046005] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Previous cross-cultural comparisons of correlations between positive and negative emotions found that East Asians are more likely than Americans to feel dialectical emotions. However, not much is known about the co-occurrence of positive and negative emotions in a given situation. When asked to describe situations in which they felt mixed emotions, Japanese and American respondents listed mostly similar situations. By presenting these situations to another group of respondents, we found that Japanese reported more mixed emotions than Americans in the predominantly pleasant situations, whereas there were no cultural differences in mixed emotions in the predominantly unpleasant situations or the mixed situations. The appraisal of self-agency mediated cultural differences in mixed emotions in the predominantly pleasant situations. Study 2 replicated the findings by asking participants to recall how they felt in their past pleasant, unpleasant, and mixed situations. The findings suggest that both Americans and Japanese feel mixed emotions, but the kinds of situation in which they typically do so depends on culture.
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