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Idiocentric and allocentric differences in emotional expression, experience, and the coherence between expression and experience
Author(s) -
Matsumoto David,
Kupperbusch Cenita
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
asian journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-839X
pISSN - 1367-2223
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-839x.2001.00080.x
Subject(s) - psychology , emotional expression , expression (computer science) , social psychology , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , construct (python library) , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language
This study examined differences in emotional expression, experience, and the coherence between expression and experience in idiocentric and allocentric individuals, who participated in a study similar to Ekman (1972) and Friesen's (1972) original display rule study. Encoders, classified as idiocentric or allocentric based on a measure of psychological culture, were unobtrusively videotaped as they viewed positive and negative films in two contexts – alone, and then a second time either alone or with an experimenter present. Subjective emotional responding was assessed following each of the film viewing sessions and, using the encoders' videotaped data, their emotional expressions were judged by a separate sample of decoders. Emotional expression and coherence differed as a function of encoder culture and viewing condition; experience did not. These findings replicate and extend the only other cross‐cultural experiment of spontaneous emotional expressions in adults conducted over thirty years ago (Ekman, 1972; Friesen, 1972), and speak to the influence of culture as a socio‐psychological construct, given that all participants were European American females.