Cross Cultural Term: ch 8 – Flashcards

feelings, or subjective experience

the process by which people evaluate the events, situations, or occurrences that lead to their having emotions.

a small set of emotions, or family of emotions, that are considered to be universal to all humans, biologically based and genetically coded and evolutionary based. humans come into the world with programs for these basic emotions; social and cultural learning then influences how they are used in life.

Culturally prescribed rules that govern how universal emotions can be expressed. these rules center on the appropriateness of displaying emotions, depending on social circumstance. learned by people early in their lives, they dictate how the universal emotional expression should be modified according to the social situation. by adulthood, these rules are quite automatic, having been very well practiced.

Rules that govern the interpretation and perception of emotion. These are learned, culturally based rules that shape how people of each culture view and interpret the emotional expressions of others.

transient, neurophysiological reactions to events that have consequences for our welfare, and behavioral response. they include feelings, but also physiological reactions, expressive behaviors, behavioral intentions, and cognitive changes.

the events or situations that elicit or trigger an emotions

the idea that the various response components of an emotion-facial expressions, voice, physiological reactions, movements- are related to each other in a coordinated fashion that prepares individuals to do something vis-a-vis the emotional aroused

the idea that positive and negative emotions can co-occur and be experienced simultaneously

Relatively greater amounts and forms of knowledge, awareness, and thought about something that go beyond the usual. The term was coined by Levy to refer to cultures that create many words to differentiate many different emotional states.

relatively fewer amounts and forms of knowledge, awareness, and thought about something compared to the usual; when cultures lack words to differentiate emotional states

the ability of individuals from a certain culture to recognize emotions of other of the same culture relatively better than of those from a different culture.

Emotions that focus on the self, such as shame, guilt, pride, or embarrassment. They are important in studies of culture because we believe that humans universally have a unique knowledge of self that is different from that of other animals, thus giving rise to this term.

Emotions that occur as a result of themes derived from social interdependence and relationships with others.

Emotions that occur as a result of themes grounded in independence and autonomy of the self, and its separateness from others.

An individual's inner feelings or experiences of emotion.

A series of studies conducted by Ekman and Friesen and by Izard that demonstrated the pancultural universality of facial expressions of emotion.