Examines the increasing evidence that emotions are not discrete "hardwired" biological events, but are influenced and shaped through social, cultural, and linguistic processes. By integrating a diversity of scientific approaches, Emotion and Culture goes a long way toward showing that culture penetrates deeply into virtually every component process of emotion: cognitive, linguistic, and even physiological and neurochemical elements.
Contributions from researchers in a wide range of scientific fields make this book an important touchstone of theory and research for the premise that emotion and culture are mutually and reciprocally related.
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction to Cultural Psychology and Emotion Research
—Shinobu Kitayama and Hazel Rose Markus
Part One: Emotion as Social Product
- Sense, Culture, and Sensibility
—Phoebe C. Ellsworth - The Social Roles and Functions of Emotions
—Nico H. Frijda and Batja Mesquita - The Cultural Construction of Self and Emotion: Implications for Social Behavior
—Hazel Rose Markus and Shinobu Kitayama
Part Two: Emotion, Language, and Cognition
- Emotion, Language, and Cultural Scripts
—Anna Wierzbicka - Cognitive Science's Contributions to Culture and Emotion
—Michael I. Posner, Mary K. Rothbart, and Catherine Harman
Part Three: Emotion as Moral Category and Phenomenon
- Affecting Culture: Emotion and Morality in Everyday Life
—Geoffrey M. White - Kali's Tongue: Cultural Psychology and the Power of Shame in Orissa, India
—Usha Menon and Richard A. Shweder - Major Cultural Syndromes and Emotion
—Harry C. Triandis - Culture, Emotion, and Psychopathology
—Janis H. Jenkins
Conclusion
- The Cultural Shaping of Emotion: A Conceptual Framework
—Hazel Rose Markus and Shinobu Kitayama
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors
Shinobu Kitayama is currently an associate professor of psychology at Kyoto University, Japan. He received his PhD in 1987 from the University of Michigan and taught at the University of Oregon from 1988 to 1993. Dr. Kitayama has worked in the areas of emotional influences on attention and perception, cognitive processes in social judgment, and cultural psychology of self and emotion.
Hazel Rose Markus is a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan and a research scientist at the Institute for Social Research. Her research has focused on the role of the self in regulating behavior. Dr. Markus has written on self-schemas, possible selves, the influence of the self on the perception of others, and the constructive role of the self in adult development. Her most recent work is in the area of cultural psychology and explores the interdependence between selves and sociocultural environments.
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