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How much can we shape the emotions we experience? This is the question of the plasticityl of our emotions. ActuaIly, it is rather misleading to speak of the plasticity question, for the question of how much we can shape our emotions hides a multitude of more particular questions. Depending on how the "we" is defined, the plasticity question splits into several sub-questions. For instance, to what extent is the agent herself able to control, cultivate and modify her emotions? This might weIl be the most important question from a personal and ethical point of view, but it is not the only one. For one might also ask to what extent surrounding people parents, teachers, friends, etc. are able to change the emotions of another person. More generaIly, to what extent do es the socio-cultural environment determine what we feel? Correlatively, what part do our genes, or more generaIly, the elements of our natural environment that are not socio-cultural, play? Given that emotions involve several aspects or components the emotional experience, the appraisal, the behavioral disposition, etc. the plasticity question splits even further. To have a full account of the plasticity of emotions, the plasticity of each component has to be considered. A further complexity cornes from the diversity of the many things that fall or can be considered to fall into the class of the emotions. Is the plasticity of so-called "basic emotions': such as joy, fear or disgust, different from the plasticity of socalled "higher cognitive emotions': such as guilt, envy, jealousy? And what about emotions that are considered to be "socially constructed", like the Japanese emotion amae, which is characterized as a pleasurable feeling of dependency (Doi, 1973; Morsbach & Tyler 1986)?2 From a methodological point ofview, it might be

Facts and values in emotional plasticity