Perceptions of emotional functionality: Similarities and differences among dignity, face, and honor cultures

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...

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Main Authors: 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.
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-48012023-12-01T07:03:41Z Perceptions of emotional functionality: Similarities and differences among dignity, face, and honor cultures 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., 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. 2022-04-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3543 info:doi/10.1177/00220221211065108 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4801/viewcontent/PerceptionsEmotionalFunctionality_av.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University anger behavior regulation cultural logic norm violation shame Multicultural Psychology Social Psychology
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Singapore
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topic anger
behavior regulation
cultural logic
norm violation
shame
Multicultural Psychology
Social Psychology
spellingShingle anger
behavior regulation
cultural logic
norm violation
shame
Multicultural Psychology
Social Psychology
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.,
Perceptions of emotional functionality: Similarities and differences among dignity, face, and honor cultures
description 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.
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author 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.,
author_facet 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.,
author_sort Maitner A.T.,
title Perceptions of emotional functionality: Similarities and differences among dignity, face, and honor cultures
title_short Perceptions of emotional functionality: Similarities and differences among dignity, face, and honor cultures
title_full Perceptions of emotional functionality: Similarities and differences among dignity, face, and honor cultures
title_fullStr Perceptions of emotional functionality: Similarities and differences among dignity, face, and honor cultures
title_full_unstemmed Perceptions of emotional functionality: Similarities and differences among dignity, face, and honor cultures
title_sort perceptions of emotional functionality: similarities and differences among dignity, face, and honor cultures
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2022
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3543
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