Mesquita Batja, Boiger Michael, De Leersnyder Jozefien
University of Leuven, Belgium.
University of Leuven, Belgium.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2016 Apr;8:31-36. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.09.015. Epub 2015 Sep 25.
A large body of anthropological and psychological research on emotions has yielded significant evidence that emotional experience is culturally constructed: people more commonly experience those emotions that help them to be a good and typical person in their culture. Moreover, experiencing these culturally normative emotions is associated with greater well-being. In this review, we summarize recent research showing how emotions are actively constructed to meet the demands of the respective cultural environment; we discuss collective as well as individual processes of construction. By focusing on cultural construction of emotion, we shift the focus toward how people from different cultures 'do' emotions and away from which emotions they 'have'.
大量关于情感的人类学和心理学研究已产生了重要证据，表明情感体验是由文化构建的：人们更常体验那些有助于他们在自己文化中成为优秀且典型个体的情感。此外，体验这些文化规范的情感与更高的幸福感相关联。在本综述中，我们总结了近期的研究，这些研究展示了情感是如何被积极构建以满足各自文化环境的需求；我们讨论了集体以及个体的构建过程。通过关注情感的文化构建，我们将重点转向不同文化背景的人们如何“践行”情感，而不再关注他们“拥有”哪些情感。
