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| Research article summary (published 29 Nov 2002): |
Emotional expression and physiology in European Americans and Hmong Americans.
Full Abstract
Ethnographic and clinical observations suggest that Asians are less expressive than European Americans. To examine whether this difference emerged in online emotional responding, 50 Hmong Americans (HAs) and 48 European Americans (EAs) were asked to relive past episodes of intense happiness, pride, love, anger, disgust, and sadness. Facial behavior and physiological reactivity were measured. For most emotions, more cultural similarities than differences were found. There were some exceptions:
During happiness, fewer HAs than EAs showed non-Duchenne smiles (i.e., "social" smiles), despite similarities in reported emotional experience and physiological reactivity. Within-group differences between "less Hmong" and "more Hmong" HAs were also found. Implications of these findings for our understanding of culture-emotion relations are discussed.
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Author information
Author/s: Tsai, Jeanne L (JL); Chentsova-Dutton, Yulia (Y); Freire-Bebeau, Liliana (L); Przymus, Diane E (DE);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California 94305-2130, USA. jtsai(-atsign-)psych.stanford.edu
Grants: MH59051 (Agency:United States NIMH)
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Journal: Emotion (Washington, D.C.) (Emotion), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Dec; vol 2 (issue 4) : pp 380-97
Dates: Created 2003/08/05; Completed 2003/10/27; Revised 2007/11/14;
PMID: 12899371, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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