Commentary on "Emotion Regulation and Culture" In "Emotion Regulation and Culture: Are the Social Consequences of Emotion Suppression Culture-Specific?" Butler, Lee, and Gross (2007) responded to the gap in literature on the intersections between emotion regulation and cultural values. Conducting a two-part study, they compared emotion suppression between Americans with Western European values and those with Asian beliefs. Emotion suppression refers to the active trimming of emotion-laden behavior
Culture plays a crucial role in defining who were are and how we interpret the world and environment around us. Culture is also influential in providing the structure, rules, expectations, and guidelines that help people to perceive, translate, and express various emotions. It is also important to note that there is a cultural display rule that offers members of a particular culture the standards governing the frequencies and form of emotional displays that are considered acceptable within a given
Introduction There are universal emotions which are experienced by each individual around the world. Example for those emotions can be listed as fear, anger, disgust, sadness and so on. People born with those emotions and those emotions evolved to serve as a mechanism which would help individuals to cope with certain obstacles that they face in the environment they live in. Each emotion serves a purpose in the survival of the individual. (Darwin 1872/1965; Ekman, 1992, 1999; Izard, 1991, 1992; Tomkins
Journal Reflection - Entry 2 Knowledge comes from learning Emotional intelligence is all about recognizing, understanding and regulating the sub-conscious or the emotions that drive us. Emotions are often thought as irrational or “nonintellectual” feelings that are beyond our control. However, emotions are complex states of mind and body, consisting of physiological, behavioral, and cognitive reactions to situations that can be managed and directed1. Self-awareness and self-knowledge are the fundamental
simple words, emotion means the rapid appraisal of the personal significance of the situation, which prepares people for action. For example, happiness, interest, surprise, fear, anger, and sadness are the six basic emotions in humans (Berk, 2012); people can easily identify one’s emotional state by observing his or her facial expression in many situations. Although the expression of emotion is universal, much research shows that emotional development can vary quite a bit by culture. According to
self-regulation of emotions as components to the model” (Kotz, 2011, p 32). In order, for us to be cohesive with our emotions we must understand our reactions and impulses, which counteract with our actions. The content learned and utilize for informational purposes is to understand emotions, when engaging in human contact. The benefit of EQ (Emotional intelligence) in human beings is utilizing and conjugating a skill set of strategic, management, and
from an artistic perspective. I have always found analyzing art as challenging yet rewarding and wanted to gain more experience appreciating art. Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper captures how each of the apostles undergoes a unique, passionate emotion that emphasizes the wide range of human feelings during the climax of tension when Jesus reveals that one of them will betray him. Some people may not agree and instead argue that Leonardo da Vinci’s piece The Last Supper is a simple bible painting
using interesting T.V. commercials, companies sell their products. The ways in which they sell the products is not by just stating that their product is good, they appeal to the human emotions, ethics and most of all what is logical. There are many ad campaigns out there that strongly target one area, such as your emotions, but the Got Milk advertisers campaign has all three of these factors. To begin with, each ad is placed in a certain magazine based on who the reader will be, for instance, a 17-year-old
Love is by far one of the most talked about, written about, expressed and implied feelings in the human array of emotions. The Beatles told us that “love is all you need”. Dr. Theodor Geisel, best known under the pseudonym Seuss, stated that “When you are in love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.” Douglas Adams gave us a dry warning in his book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, stressing that, in terms of love, “Avoid, if at all possible.” With all the artists
In their article “Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation”, Markus and Kitayama (1991) question the universality of notion of self as a “complete, whole, autonomous” (p.246) entity that is separate from others and the social contexts surrounding it' and propose that like many other concepts in psychology, it has a more complex and variable reality. They contend that anecdotes such as, in America, “the squeaky wheel gets the grease” and in Japan, “the nail that sticks
experience and express emotions can be a long process. Everyone starts experiencing emotions pretty much from the day of birth; as a person grows up with their family every single day they become more experienced and have more emotions that can help create and form their lifestyle. The decisions a person makes is always influenced by the emotions they have at the current time and the emotions they have experienced before. Experiencing emotions are easier than expressing them. Emotions may be easier to
ROBERT LEVY Robert Levy argued that feelings are not necessarily emotions. It all depends on the relationship between the person and something else. A feeling tends to provoke some sense of action. In addition, feeling is the physiological state of an individual, or something inside of that person. The example used in class is the statement, “I am wet.” We explained this by saying that the feeling is what happens when some part of a person’s body enters conscious awareness. Another example could
This essay concerns emotions and controversial arguments based on whether emotions are universal or a learned phenomenon. Most of the research in to cross cultural Psychology surround their attention on the biological aspect of emotions as being the primary source of the occurrence of emotions and has been the subject of numerous studies. However, culture is also known to affect and provoke emotional experiences. This essay will discuss the position of emotions from a Universalist view and from a
1979, p. 569, paras. 2, 3). To that end, the expectations of emotion work, which vary across social classes, are taught to children; thereby reproducing the sociocultural influences upon the experience, assessment, and expression of emotion, not to mention the reproduction of emotional social class structure (Hochschild, 1979, p. 552, para. 3; p. 572, para. 2). In a more expansive theoretic perspective, Kemper views emotions as being both socially produced, and socially controlled.
communication of emotions through facial expression. Other channels of nonverbal communication are also of great importance in many cultures. However which channels are emphasized, what cues are considered acceptable and the symbolic meaning of the cues may vary from culture to culture. Ekman and Friesen (3) undertook an important cross-cultural study to determine how easily and accurately people from various literate Western and non-Western cultures could identify the appropriate emotion term to match
Emotions play a significant part in our daily lives, especially to our overall wellbeing whenever we share these experiences with other people. The ability to express and interpret emotions is an important skill that everyone can improve on that would greatly benefit their interpersonal communication. Our expressions accompany our emotions; they serve as windows that allow other people to know what we are feeling inside. There are several factors that influence how we communicate our feelings. The
This is a look at Suprasegmentals and their role in communications universally. That even in another language that the emotional message at least for the main emotions of anger, fear, excitement, happiness or neutral emotions are decoded by 66%. There are many cues that add to the decoding of speech and though tones are only one area they play a big part in our overall awareness of communications in general. There have been experiments that have been done in this area resulting in concepts about
Societies have different cultures and people in each culture are grown and raised with a set of norms, values, and beliefs. These shared values and beliefs are learned from their childhood through their adulthood. Culture is not something which everyone is born with, but it is something which everyone learns while growing up. It does not only influence the daily lives, but it also influences the business activities which take place in that particular society. Many of us work with people who have
Yoshimoto’s Kitchen, Yoshimoto comments on the Japanese cultural standard of dealing with emotion - specifically grief - individually. She utilizes vivid imagery, syntax, and figurative language to first explore individuality and the process of grieving in Japanese culture, and later juxtaposing it with how resolution can be found by combating these cultural practices and the benefits of expressing emotions with others. Yoshimoto’s opinion of this cultural standard shines through in the novella and
MTV has reached a high of 12.45 million viewers on its 2011 Video Music Awards. MTV was engendered on August 1, 1981. It amalgamated television and rock-and-roll, which was very consequential to pop culture at the time. As Rob Tannenbaum and Craig Marks expounds, “Children had cartoons; adults had the evening news and most of the exhibitions that followed it. Teens are an untapped audience”(xxxviii). It commenced with tyro videos. There were 125 videos in the rotation including Duran Duran, Eurhythmics