Defending honour, keeping face: Interpersonal affordances of anger and shame in Turkey and Japan
Defending honour, keeping face: Interpersonal affordances of anger and shame in Turkey and Japan
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DOI:
10.1080/02699931.2014.881324
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发表时间:
2014-01-01
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Mesquita, Batja
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作者:
Boiger, Michael;Gungor, Derya;Mesquita, Batja
In the present study, we tested the idea that emotions are afforded to the extent that they benefit central cultural concerns. We predicted that emotions that are beneficial for the Turkish concern for defending honour (both anger and shame) are afforded frequently in Turkey, whereas emotions that are beneficial for the Japanese concern for keeping face (shame but not anger) are afforded frequently in Japan. N = 563 students from Turkey and Japan indicated how frequently people in their culture experience a range of interpersonal anger and shame situations, and how intense their emotions would be. As predicted, participants perceived emotional interactions to occur frequently to the extent that they elicited culturally beneficial emotions. Moreover, the affordance of culturally beneficial emotions differed in predictable ways not only between cultures but also within cultures between situations with close vs. distant others and male vs. female protagonists.