Emotion between universalism and relativism : finding a standard for comparison in cross-cultural emotion research
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- Johnny Fontaine (UGent) and Seger Breugelmans
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- This chapter combines developments in the emotion literature with developments in cross-cultural methodology in order to formulate four recommendations that can bridge the gap between relativist and universalist views on cultural variation in emotion. We recommend that researchers (1) specify the emotions or facets of emotions they study, preferably using a multi-componential approach to assessing emotions; (2) check the equivalence across languages and cultures of the emotion vocabulary they use, either by existing data bases or by including the measurement of meaning in their design; (3) specify the level at which they compare emotions across cultures ranging from descriptions of culture-specific constructs to direct comparisons of mean scores, and apply adequate methods to demonstrate the level of comparability claimed; and (4) account for both similarities and differences when they formulate hypotheses, as well as when they interpret their data. These recommendations are illustrated with historical and contemporary cross-cultural emotion research.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8745767
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- Fontaine, Johnny, and Seger Breugelmans. “Emotion between Universalism and Relativism : Finding a Standard for Comparison in Cross-Cultural Emotion Research.” Methods and Assessment in Culture and Psychology, edited by Michael Bender and Byron Adams, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 144–69, doi:10.1017/9781108675475.009.
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- Fontaine, J., & Breugelmans, S. (2021). Emotion between universalism and relativism : finding a standard for comparison in cross-cultural emotion research. In M. Bender & B. Adams (Eds.), Methods and assessment in culture and psychology (pp. 144–169). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108675475.009
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- Fontaine, Johnny, and Seger Breugelmans. 2021. “Emotion between Universalism and Relativism : Finding a Standard for Comparison in Cross-Cultural Emotion Research.” In Methods and Assessment in Culture and Psychology, edited by Michael Bender and Byron Adams, 144–69. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108675475.009.
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- Fontaine, Johnny, and Seger Breugelmans. 2021. “Emotion between Universalism and Relativism : Finding a Standard for Comparison in Cross-Cultural Emotion Research.” In Methods and Assessment in Culture and Psychology, ed by. Michael Bender and Byron Adams, 144–169. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108675475.009.
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- 1.Fontaine J, Breugelmans S. Emotion between universalism and relativism : finding a standard for comparison in cross-cultural emotion research. In: Bender M, Adams B, editors. Methods and assessment in culture and psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2021. p. 144–69.
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- [1]J. Fontaine and S. Breugelmans, “Emotion between universalism and relativism : finding a standard for comparison in cross-cultural emotion research,” in Methods and assessment in culture and psychology, M. Bender and B. Adams, Eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 144–169.
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