Cultural Differences and Cross-Cultural Similarities in Appraisals and Emotional Responses

Roseman, Ira J.; Dhawan, Nisha; Rettek, S. Ilsa; Naidu, R. K.; Thapa, Komilla

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“…Therefore, one might expect cultural differences in the frequency and intensity of anger and frustration depending on the cultural schema of the world as controllable or uncontrollable. This expectation was confirmed by two studies in which European Americans' emotional responses were compared to those of Indians (Roseman et al, 1995) and Tahitians (Levy, 1978). Whereas the European American cultural ideals tend to emphasize control and predictability and, as such, promote a view of the world as malleable (Weisz et al, 1984; Mesquita and Ellsworth, 2001; Morling et al, 2002), Indian cultural ideals don't show this tendency (Miller et al, 1990; Savani et al, 2011).…”

Section: Antecedent-focused Emotion Regulation As a Source Of Culturamentioning

confidence: 72%

Cultural regulation of emotion: individual, relational, and structural sources

Leersnyder¹,

Boiger²,

Mesquita³

2013

Front. Psychology

141

113

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The most prevalent and intense emotional experiences differ across cultures. These differences in emotional experience can be understood as the outcomes of emotion regulation, because emotions that fit the valued relationships within a culture tend to be most common and intense. We review evidence suggesting that emotion regulation underlying cultural differences in emotional experience often takes place at the point of emotion elicitation through the promotion of situations and appraisals that are consistent with culturally valued relationships. These regulatory processes depend on individual tendencies, but are also co-regulated within relationships—close others shape people's environment and help them appraise events in culturally valued ways—and are afforded by structural conditions—people's daily lives “limit” the opportunities for emotion, and afford certain appraisals. The combined evidence suggests that cultural differences in emotion regulation go well beyond the effortful regulation based on display rules.

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Section: Antecedent-focused Emotion Regulation As a Source Of Culturamentioning

confidence: 72%

Cultural regulation of emotion: individual, relational, and structural sources

Leersnyder¹,

Boiger²,

Mesquita³

2013

Front. Psychology

141

113

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“…The organizational literature is nearly devoid of studies of sadness. An exception is Roseman and colleagues' (Roseman, Dhawan, Rettek, & Naidu, 1995) findings that sadness was related to appraisals of powerlessness. Sadness might be expected when work-related deaths and other traumas occur, but it can be argued that sadness in the workplace may also arise from the relatively innocuous context of an uncivil experience.…”

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Emotional and Behavioral Responses to Workplace Incivility and the Impact of Hierarchical Status

Porath

Pearson

2012

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Using appraisal theory, this research examined targets' emotional responses to workplace incivility, and how these responses impact targets' behavioral responses. Targets who reported greater incivility reported greater anger, fear, and sadness. Targets' anger was associated with more direct aggression against the instigators; targets' fear was associated with indirect aggression against instigators, absenteeism, and exit; and targets' sadness was associated with absenteeism. Status moderated the effects of fear and sadness. Our results underscore the need for organizations to manage civility so that they and their employees can avoid substantial direct and indirect costs associated with workplace incivility. At a broader level, our results suggest the importance of developing greater awareness about the harmful effects of fear and sadness in the workplace.

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“…Relevant data are available from numerous questionnaire studies in which people have been asked to report on their emotional experiences and to rate the associated appraisals in order to determine the correspondence of these two sets of variables (e.g., Frijda, Kuipers, & ter Schure, 1989;Manstead & Tetlock, 1989;Mauro, Sato, & Tucker, 1992;Roseman, Dhawan, Rettek, Naidu, & Thapa, 1995;Smith & Ellsworth, 1985Tesser, 1990;Weiner, 1985). Descriptive connections, on the other hand, suggest that actual appraisal processes are empirically associated with actual emotional processes.…”

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Untangling the Appraisal-Emotion Connection

Parkinson

1997

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

158

111

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This article aims to clarify the nature of the relation between cognitive appraisal and emotion. I distinguish a range of alternative possible hypotheses according to whether this appraisal-emotion connection is assumed to operate at the conceptual or empirical level, whether it is supposed to be a descriptive or causal relation, and whether it is seen as having a contingent or necessary basis. Reviewing the varieties of available evidence for connections at different levels, find little support for empirical rather than conceptual relations or for necessary as opposed to contingent ones. Ways are suggested in which this evidence might be extended so that more substantive conclusions are possible. I contend that future progress in this research area requires tighter specification of the different kinds of appraisal process that operate during real-time emotional episodes and of their potential interactions with other aspects of the unfolding emotional syndrome. Finally, I develop an alternative perspective on appraisal-emotion relations that views appraisals as representing the message value of interpersonally directed emotions, and I suggest future directions for research based on this approach.

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Cultural Differences and Cross-Cultural Similarities in Appraisals and Emotional Responses

Cited by 46 publications

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Cultural regulation of emotion: individual, relational, and structural sources

Cultural regulation of emotion: individual, relational, and structural sources

Emotional and Behavioral Responses to Workplace Incivility and the Impact of Hierarchical Status

Untangling the Appraisal-Emotion Connection

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