Cross-cultural similarities and differences in emotion and its representation

Abstract

Explore the issue of cross-cultural universality of emotions and emotion knowledge summarize preliminary attempts to extend prototype theory and methodology into the realm of cross-cultural comparisons begin with the problem of definition survey the evidence concerning cross-cultural similarities and differences in emotions themselves, which provides a foundation for considering similarities and differences among emotion representations in different cultures explain the prototype approach to emotion knowledge and summarize recent studies using that approach to compare emotion representations in Italy, China, and the United States compare our results with those of other cross-cultural psychologists address a preliminary claim made by Lakoff and Kovecses (1983) that emotion metaphors, such as "exploding with anger," are likely to be culture specific conclude with a brief consideration of the ethical stances implicit in various forms of cross-cultural universalism (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved) (from the chapter)

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