PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Paul Ekman, Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Autonomic Nervous System
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Cultural variation in intensity of emotional experience: studies that have compared the emotional experience of japanese and americans: which suggested that the cultural display rules governing the deamplifyig and masking of emotions in. East asia might lead east asians to experience fewer and less intense emotions than americans: one study reported that americans report feeling certain experienced emotions longer and more intensely than the japanese did. Inhibiting anger led to a slower recovery of blood pressure for european- Canadians than it did for chinese-canadians this suggests that the chinese- Americans feel very good when they"re dwelling on those emotional experiences that distinguish them from others: japanese feel more shame compared to americans. Self-reflective americans were more depressed than self-reflective russians. Emotional experience varies more across cultures than people"s facial expressions for the basic emotions. Looking at emotional lexicon, there is tremendous variability in the kids of words people use to describe their experiences.
