al studies have supported these conclusions. These authors cited an example: in a study of Americans and Costa Ricans, 38 emotions were rated with regard to comfort in their expression toward family members and strangers. The emotions were rated as positive or negative, independent or interdependent. Findings showed that Americans were more comfortable in expressing independent and interdependent emotions; Costa Ricans were less comfortable in expressing negative emotions.
Subbotsky and Quinteros (2002) reported findings of a study of cultural influence on emotions and beliefs. The authors conducted experiments with responses to unusual phenomena in adult participants living in Mexico. For the experiments the responses were accompanied by actions which suggested either scientif
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