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Perceptions of Emotional Functionality: Similarities and Differences Among Dignity, Face, and Honor Cultures
Maitner, Angela DeCoster, Jamie Andersson, Per A. Eriksson, Kimmo Sherbaji, Sara Giner-Sorolla, Roger Mackie, Diane M. Aveyard, Mark Claypool, Heather M. Crisp, Richard J.
Maitner, Angela
DeCoster, Jamie
Andersson, Per A.
Eriksson, Kimmo
Sherbaji, Sara
Giner-Sorolla, Roger
Mackie, Diane M.
Aveyard, Mark
Claypool, Heather M.
Crisp, Richard J.
Date
2021
Authors
Maitner, Angela
DeCoster, Jamie
Andersson, Per A.
Eriksson, Kimmo
Sherbaji, Sara
Giner-Sorolla, Roger
Mackie, Diane M.
Aveyard, Mark
Claypool, Heather M.
Crisp, Richard J.
Gritskov, Vladimir
Habjan, Kristina
Hartano, Andree
Kiyonari, Toko
Kuzminska, Anna O.
Manesi, Zoi
Molho, Catherine
Munasinghe, Anudhi
Peperkoorn, Leonard S.
Shiramizu, Victor
Smallman, Rachel
Soboleva, Natalia
Stivers, Adam W.
Summerville, Amy
Wu, Baopei
Wu, Junhui
DeCoster, Jamie
Andersson, Per A.
Eriksson, Kimmo
Sherbaji, Sara
Giner-Sorolla, Roger
Mackie, Diane M.
Aveyard, Mark
Claypool, Heather M.
Crisp, Richard J.
Gritskov, Vladimir
Habjan, Kristina
Hartano, Andree
Kiyonari, Toko
Kuzminska, Anna O.
Manesi, Zoi
Molho, Catherine
Munasinghe, Anudhi
Peperkoorn, Leonard S.
Shiramizu, Victor
Smallman, Rachel
Soboleva, Natalia
Stivers, Adam W.
Summerville, Amy
Wu, Baopei
Wu, Junhui
Advisor
Type
Article
Peer-Reviewed
Postprint
Peer-Reviewed
Postprint
Degree
Description
Abstract
Emotions are linked to wide sets of action tendencies, and it can be difficult to predict which specific action tendency will be motivated or indulged in response to individual experiences of emotion. Building on a functional perspective of emotion, we investigate whether anger and shame connect to different behavioral intentions in dignity, face, and honor cultures. Using simple animations that showed perpetrators taking resources from victims, we conducted two studies across eleven countries investigating the extent to which participants expected victims to feel anger and shame, how they thought victims should respond to such violations, and how expectations of emotions were affected by enacted behavior. Across cultures, anger was associated with desires to reclaim resources or alert others to the violation. In face and honor cultures, but not dignity cultures, shame was associated with the desire for aggressive retaliation. However, we found that when victims indulged motivationally-relevant behavior, expected anger and shame were reduced and satisfaction increased in similar ways across cultures. Results suggest similarities and differences in expectations of how emotions functionally elicit behavioral responses across cultures.