Cultures of moderation and expression: emotional experience, behavior, and physiology in Chinese Americans and Mexican Americans.
Cultures of moderation and expression: emotional experience, behavior, and physiology in Chinese Americans and Mexican Americans.
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DOI：
10.1037/1528-3542.5.2.154
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发表时间：
2005-06
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影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
José A. Soto;R. Levenson;Rachel Ebling
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作者：
José A. Soto;R. Levenson;Rachel Ebling
民族志的记载表明，在中国文化中，情绪是温和的，而在墨西哥文化中，情绪是公开表达的。作者通过比较95名华裔美国人和64名墨西哥裔美国人对3种（警告，未警告，指示抑制反应）厌恶性声音惊吓刺激的主观，行为和生理反应来测试这一概念。主观报告与人种学描述一致;华裔美国人报告在所有3种惊吓条件下的情绪明显低于墨西哥裔美国人。来自非情绪任务的证据表明，这些差异并不是使用评级量表时文化差异的产物。在情绪行为或生理方面几乎没有发现文化差异，这表明情绪的这些方面不太容易受到文化影响。
Ethnographic accounts suggest that emotions are moderated in Chinese cultures and expressed openly in Mexican cultures. The authors tested this notion by comparing subjective, behavioral, and physiological aspects of emotional responses to 3 (warned, unwarned, instructed to inhibit responding) aversive acoustic startle stimuli in 95 Chinese Americans and 64 Mexican Americans. Subjective reports were consistent with ethnographic accounts; Chinese Americans reported experiencing significantly less emotion than Mexican Americans across all 3 startle conditions. Evidence from a nonemotional task suggested that these differences were not artifacts of cultural differences in the use of rating scales. Few cultural differences were found in emotional behavior or physiology, suggesting that these aspects of emotion are less susceptible to cultural influence.