In deze literatuurstudie uit 1992 duiken schrijvers Batja Mesquita en Nico H. Frijda in de details van culturele variatie in emoties. Ze behandelen onder andere de culturele verschillen in het ontstaan van emoties, en categorisatie van diverse emoties. Het artikel is geschreven in het Engels en gepubliceerd opd e website van de KU Leuven. Je kunt het artikel vinden via de link.
Abstract.
The psychological and antropological literature on cultural variations in emotions is reviewed. The literature has been interpreted within the framework of a cognitive-process model of emotions. Both cross-cultural differences and similatories were identified in each phase of the emotion process; similarities in 1 phase do not necessarily imply similarities in other phases. Whether cross-cultural differences or similarities are found depends to an important degree on the level of description of the emotional phenomena. Cultural differences in emotions appear to be due to differences in event types or schemas, in culture-specific approaisal propensities, in behavior repertoires, or in regulation processes. Differences in taxonomies of emotion words sometimes reflect true emotion differences like those just mentioned, but they may also just result from differences in which emotion-process phase serves as the basis for categorization.