Emotion in Culture and Psychology

Emotions and their expression are an important part of life and they are influenced by culture. Matsumoto and Juang (2004) stated that there may be universal experiences of emotion, however studies also show that there are differences in the experience of emotion according to culture with differences in subjective feeling, psychological symptoms, and behavioral reactions. Matsumoto and Juang (2004) reported that not only are there differences in the experience of emotions but they differ in their expression; in particular facial expression varies according to culture. Thus wh

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ic explanations over magical explanations were found in British participants' verbal judgments but not in Mexican participants' judgments. High-risk situations evoked increased emotions which resulted in equal degrees of credibility regarding effects of magic. Thus culture and emotions were interrelated. Harre (1998) pointed out that the word emotion is used for private feelings and public expressions of those feelings. The expression may include intentionality or a reference to something and a normative conforming to convention. Harre (1998) reported that the cognitive components involved in the expression of emotion include intentionality, assessment of the value of that to which the emotion is directed, connected to the valuation is the positioning of all involved, and a system of rapid reaction to current and past states. Thus the expression of a feeling involves a complex judgment. Culture influences this judgment process. Harre (1998) also stated that explanations for large classes of phenomena include that of a norm or rule. Human action is intentional, directed toward some outcome, and it is shaped by norms and rules that are habitual. Within this context an emotion is understood according to the private and
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