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Culture‐specific appraisal biases contribute to emotion dispositions

Author(s) -

Scherer Klaus R.,

Brosch Tobias

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

european journal of personality

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.839

H-Index - 84

eISSN - 1099-0984

pISSN - 0890-2070

DOI - 10.1002/per.714

Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , disposition , trait , personality , value (mathematics) , argument (complex analysis) , appraisal theory , affect (linguistics) , big five personality traits , mechanism (biology) , cognitive psychology , epistemology , biochemistry , chemistry , philosophy , communication , machine learning , computer science , programming language

We suggest that cultural factors may encourage the development of affective personality traits or emotional dispositions by producing or rewarding specific appraisal biases. To buttress this argument, we describe a putative mechanism and review the pertinent evidence: (a) an emotion disposition (trait affect) is a risk factor for experiencing certain emotions more readily and/or more frequently, (b) appraisal bias tends to cause certain emotions to be more readily experienced and may thus lead to the emergence of emotion dispositions and even emotional disturbances and (c) cultural goal, belief and value systems may encourage certain types of appraisal bias and may thus provide an explanation for vestiges of culture‐specific modal personality. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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