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learning to fear: a case study of emotional conditioning
Author(s) -
ROBARCHEK CLAYTON A.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1979.6.3.02a00090
Subject(s) - ethos , emotionality , social emotional learning , psychology , social psychology , sociology , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , linguistics , philosophy
Numerous researchers have noted the existence of culture‐specific patterns of emotionality, or “ethoses,” that are characteristic of particular societies. This paper examines the development and maintenance of one such emotional specialization by analyzing the social, cultural, psychological, and physiological processes whose interactions give rise in each generation to an ethos of fearfulness among the Semai Senoi of West Malaysia.