Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
4-2022
Abstract
Emotions are linked to wide sets of action tendencies, and it can be difficult to predict which specific action tendency will be motivated or indulged in response to individual experiences of emotion. Building on a functional perspective of emotion, we investigate whether anger and shame connect to different behavioral intentions in dignity, face, and honor cultures. Using simple animations that showed perpetrators taking resources from victims, we conducted two studies across eleven countries investigating the extent to which participants expected victims to feel anger and shame, how they thought victims should respond to such violations, and how expectations of emotions were affected by enacted behavior. Across cultures, anger was associated with desires to reclaim resources or alert others to the violation. In face and honor cultures, but not dignity cultures, shame was associated with the desire for aggressive retaliation. However, we found that when victims indulged motivationally-relevant behavior, expected anger and shame were reduced, and satisfaction increased, in similar ways across cultures. Results suggest similarities and differences in expectations of how emotions functionally elicit behavioral responses across cultures.
Keywords
anger, behavior regulation, cultural logic, norm violation, shame
Discipline
Multicultural Psychology | Social Psychology
Research Areas
Psychology
Publication
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Volume
53
Issue
3-4
First Page
263
Last Page
288
ISSN
0022-0221
Identifier
10.1177/00220221211065108
Publisher
SAGE
Citation
Maitner A.T., , DeCoster J., , Andersson P.A., , Eriksson K., , Sherbaji S., , Giner-Sorolla R., , Mackie D.M., , Aveyard M., , Claypool H.M., , Crisp R.J., , Gritskov V., , Habjan K., , Andree HARTANTO, , Kiyonari T., , Kuzminska A.O., , Manesi Z., , Molho C., , Munasinghe A., , Peperkoorn L.S., , & Shiramizu V., .(2022). Perceptions of emotional functionality: Similarities and differences among dignity, face, and honor cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 53(3-4), 263-288.
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221211065108