Body sensations associated with emotions in Rarámuri Indians, rural Javanese, and three student samples
Seger M Breugelmans1, Ype H Poortinga, Zara Ambadar
1Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands. sbreugel@uvt.nl
Abstract:
Cultural variations in the associations of 12 body sensations with 7 emotions were studied in 2 rural samples from northern Mexico (n = 61) and Java, Indonesia (n = 99), with low exposure to Western influences and in 3 university student samples from Belgium (n = 75), Indonesia (n = 85), and Mexico (n = 123). Both parametric and nonparametric analyses suggest that findings from previous studies with only student samples (K. R. Scherer & H. G. Wallbott, 1994) were generalizable to the 2 rural samples. Some notable cultural deviations from common profiles were also identified. Implications of the findings for explanations of body sensations experienced with emotions and the cross-cultural study of emotions are discussed.
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