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2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Socio-cultural process of emotion: Cultural mediated process of everyday

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13610166
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 教育・社会系心理学
Research InstitutionTokyo Woman's Christian University

Principal Investigator

KARASAWA Mayumi  Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Dept. of Communication, Associate Professor, 現代文化学部, 助教授 (60255940)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) TOBIN Joseph  Arizona State Univeristy, Dept. of Education, Professor, 教育学部, 教授
MESPUITA Batja  Wake Forest University, Dept. of Psychology, Associate Professor, 心理学部, 准教授
Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2003
KeywordsEmotion / Cultural self / Everyday experience / Emotional development
Research Abstract

The idea that culture affects an individual's emotions resonates with other research in cultural psychology that posits that culture isconstitutive of the mind. Emotions not only are part of relationships and interactions, but beyond that, are intertwined with and shaped by the specific meanings and practices of the very relationships, which they help to constitute. First, we reviewed available evidence for the model to show that whereas socially disengaging emotions such as pride and anger are strongly afforded and reinforced in North America, socially engaging emotions such as friendly feelings and shame are strongly afforded and reinforced in Japan. In support of the hypothesis, we examined with everyday experience of emotions for students and community sample and children in preschool as eveiyday experience situation. We found that emotions that are relevant to the respective forms of self are experienced both more frequently and more intensely than their less relevant counterparts. These effects occurred regardless of the pleasantness of the emotions. Furthermore. According to a dual process model of emotion regulation, a network of practices and public meanings of culture render the experience of certain emotions far more likely than the experience of certain other emotions. In preschool, Moreover, these practices and meanings reinforce culture specific emotions such as Omoiyari, more than certain others in Japanese preschool. These collective-level processes of emotion give rise to implications for cultural psychological research on emotion.

  • Research Products

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All Publications (10 results)

  • [Publications] Mesquita, B., Karasawa, M: "Different emotional lives"Cognition and Emotion. vol.16(1). 127-141 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Little, T., Miyashita, T., Karasawa, M., Mashima, M., Azuma, H: "The links among action-control beliefs, intellective skill, and school performance in Japanese, US, and German school children, International Journal of Behavioral development"International Journal of Behavioral development. Vol.27(1). 41-48 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Mesquita, B., Masuda, T., Leu, J., Ellsworth, P., Karasawa, M: "Cultural lens on facial behavior in emotions"Observer. (2004)

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  • [Publications] Tobin, J., Karasawa, M, Hsueh, Y: "Komatudani Then and Now : Continuity and Change in a Preschool"Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. (印刷中).

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  • [Publications] Kitayama, S., Mesquit, B., Karasawa, M: "Collective and Personal Processes in Regulating Emotions : Emotion and Self in Japan and the US, P.Philippot and R.S.Feldman (Eds) The Regulation of Emotion"Lawrence Erlbaum(印刷中).

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  • [Publications] Mesquita, B., Karasawa, M.: "Different emotional lives"Cognition_and_Emotion. vol.16(1). 127-141 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Little, T., Miyashita, T., Karasawa, M., Mashima, M., Azuma, H.: "The links among action-control beliefs, intellective skill, and school performance in Japanese, US, and German school children"International Journal of Behavioral Development. Vol.27(1). 41-48 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Mesquita, B., Masuda, T., Leu, J., Ellsworth,, Karasawa, M.: "Cultural lens on facial behavior in emotions"Observer, February, APA.. (2004)

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  • [Publications] Kitayama, S., Mesquita, B., Karasawa, M.: "Collective and Personal Processes in Regulating Emotions : Emotion and Self in Japan and the US"The Regulation of Emotion( Philippot and R. S. Feldman (Eds)).

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  • [Publications] Tobin, J., Karasawa, M., Hsueh, Y.: "Komatudani Then and Now : Continuity and Change in a Preschool, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood"Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. (in press).

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Published: 2005-04-19  

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