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Cultural influences on emotional expression: Implications for intercultural communication
Richard E. Porter,Larry A. Samovar +1 more
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In this article, the authors explore the relationship between culture and the communication of emotional states during intercultural communication and discuss several significant cultural dynamics that affect the display of emotion and ultimately inter-cultural communication.Abstract:
Publisher Summary This chapter explores the relationship between culture and the communication of emotional states during intercultural communication. There are at least six primary emotions—anger, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, and happiness—which are usually considered to be physiologically based and expressed similarly across cultures. Secondary emotions, such as pride, guilt, and shame arise culturally through participation in the sociocultural environment and tend to vary based on age, gender, and culture. Intercultural communication examines the situation in which a message is encoded in one culture for consumption in another culture. The correct interpretation of verbal and nonverbal messages encoded in another culture is largely dependent upon one's proficiency in social perception and experience in intercultural communication. The chapter discusses several significant cultural dynamics that affect the display of emotion and ultimately intercultural communication. These diverse aspects of culture are (1) display rules, (2) antecedent events, (3) individual-collectivism and power distance, (4) context, (5) nonverbal communication, and (6) languageread more
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Culture′s Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values
TL;DR: In his book Culture's Consequences, Geert Hofstede proposed four dimensions on which the differences among national cultures can be understood: Individualism, Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance and Masculinity as mentioned in this paper.
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Constants across cultures in the face and emotion
Paul Ekman,Wallace V. Friesen +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that members of a preliterate culture who had minimal exposure to literate cultures would associate the same emotion concepts with the same facial behaviors as do members of Western and Eastern literates.
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Individualism and Collectivism: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Self-Ingroup Relationships
TL;DR: The individualism and collectivism constructs are theoretically analyzed and linked to certain hypothesized consequences (social behaviors, health indices). as discussed by the authors explored the meaning of these constructs within culture within culture (in the United States), identifying the individual-differences variable, idiocentrism versus all-theory, that corresponds to the constructs and found that U.S. individualism is reflected in self-reliance with competition, low concern for groups, and distance from groups.