Experiencing Emotion: A Cross-Cultural Study

This book describes a large-scale, cross-cultural study of emotional experience and emotional reaction which was conducted in eight European countries: the UK, West Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Israel. Until now most research on emotion has been conducted under laboratory conditions, but the contributors to this study used a questionnaire approach to gather material covering a wide range of topics. Do certain situations elicit emotion-specific responses? Do emotion-specific symptom and reaction patterns exist? Do the common stereotypes of Northern and Southern emotional responses reflect the existence of real cross-cultural differences in emotional experiences and responses? Four emotions were studied - joy, sadness, fear and anger - and the results provide not only a wealth of quantitative data, but also, at the descriptive level, a fascinating overview of the ways in which people experience emotion.Scherer, Klaus R. is the author of 'Experiencing Emotion: A Cross-Cultural Study' with ISBN 9780521304276 and ISBN 052130427X.