CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY LAB

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Emotions and Culture

EMOTIONS AND CULTURE

Below are the projects of the Cultural Psychology Lab focused on emotions and culture.

  • Schouten, A., Boiger, M., Uchida, A., Verstaen, A., Paillé, C., Uchida, Y., & Mesquita, B. (2024). Couple conflict observed: Emotions in Belgium and Japan. Emotion, 24(7), 1776–1780. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001374
  • Schouten, A., Boiger, M., Uchida, A., Ribbers, N., Uchida, Y., & Mesquita, B. (2023). Couple disagreement: Inevitable and healthy? Belgian and Japanese conceptions. Personal Relationships, 30, 419-450. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.12478
  • Boiger, M., Kirchner-Häusler, A., Schouten, A., Uchida, Y., & Mesquita, B. (2022). Different bumps in the road: The emotional dynamics of couple disagreements in Belgium and Japan. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000910
  • Kirchner-Häusler, A., Boiger, M., Uchida, Y., Higuchi, Y., Uchida, A., & Mesquita, B. (2022). Relatively happy: The role of the positive-to-negative affect ratio in Japanese and Belgian couples. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 53, 66-86.
  • Manokara, K., Duric, M., Fischer, A. H., & Sauter, D. A. (Accepted/In press). Do People Agree on How Positive Emotions are Expressed? A Survey of Four Emotions and Five Modalities across 11 Cultures. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. https://doi.org/https://osf.io/ep9d5/
  • Sun, R., Hou, W. K., Hui, B. P. H., Siu, N. Y. F., Engels, T. F. S., & Sauter, D. A. (2021). Perception and evaluation of 23 positive emotions in Hong Kong and the Netherlands. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.579474
  • Fang, X., van Kleef, G. A., Kawakami, K., & Sauter, D. A. (2021). Cultural Differences in Perceiving Transitions in Emotional Facial Expressions: Easterners Show Greater Contrast Effects than Westerners. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95, 104143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104143
  • Lu, M., Hamamura, T., Doosje, B., Suzuki, S., & Takemura, K. (2016). Culture and group-based emotions? Could group-based emotions be dialectical. Cognition & Emotion, 31(5), 937-949. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1185394 
  • Boiger, M. (2019). A cultural psychological perspective on close relationships. In D. Schoebi & B. Campos (Eds.), Close relationships: Pathways to strong bonds (pp. 83-99). Routledge.
  • Boiger, M., Ceulemans, E., De Leersnyder, J., Uchida, Y., Norasakkunkit, V., & Mesquita, B. (2018). Beyond Essentialism: Cultural Differences in Emotions Revisited. Emotion, 18(8), 1142-1162. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000390