Anger, Envy, Fear, and Jealousy as Felt in the Body: A Five-Nation Study

Hupka, Ralph B.; Zaleski, Zbigniew; Otto, Jürgen H.; Reidl, Lucy María; Tarabrina, Nadia V.

doi:10.1177/106939719603000302

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“…These findings, in addition to the cross-culturally uniform sequence of labeling emotion categories, strongly suggest that the lexical regularity, if not based on social and phenomenological experiences common to the human species, surely is founded on innate principles of human language. Our findings are consistent with increasing reports of cross-cultural similarities in the emotion domain (Buunk & Hupka, 1987;Church, Katigbak, Reyes, & Jensen, 1998;Frijda et al, 1995;Gehm & Scherer, 1988;Herrmann & Raybeck, 1981;Hupka et al, 1985Hupka et al, , 1993Hupka & Zaleski, 1990;Hupka, Zaleski, Otto, Reidl, & Tarabrina, 1996Mesquita & Frijda, 1992;Osgood et al, 1975;Rorrmey et al, 1997;Russell, 1983Russell, , 1991Russell, Lewicka, & Niit, 1989;Scherer, 1988Scherer, , 1997Scherer & Wallbott, 1994;Scherer, Wallbott, & Summerfield, 1986;Shaver et al, 1992).…”

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Universal development of emotion categories in natural language.

Hupka¹,

Lenton²,

Hutchison³

1999

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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(1987) found that English emotion words fall into 25 categories of synonyms. To find emotion nomenclature universals, the authors used P. Shaver et al.'s taxonomy in a sample of the world's languages and found that emotion categories were added in most languages in a relatively similar generalized sequence. Labeled first were the categories of anger and guilt; followed in Stage 2 by adoration, alarm, amusement, and depression; in Stage 3 by alienation, arousal, and agony; and ending with eagerness in Stage 4. The remaining 5 stages were derivatives of Stages 1-4. Thus, in the folk taxonomy, Stages 1-4 are basic linguistic emotion categories. Motives for labeling emotions were driven possibly by the need to maintain social control, the identification of prototypical emotions elicited in interpersonal relationships, and the need for terms to identify intrapersonal emotions. Features of markedness theory were corroborated for English emotion terms. Which categories of emotions, such as anger, fear, joy, and sadness, were labeled first, second, third, and so on? Was the encoding sequence similar in all languages, perhaps because a limited set of fundamental panhuman experiences or crises served as the fountainhead in all cultures for the encoding of emotion terms? Or was the labeling of emotions random, with each culture encoding different shades of feeling? The purpose of this study was to explore whether the sequence of naming emotion categories was uniform across cultures, and if so, what may have been the motivation for the particular naming sequence. We begin with a listing of human universals and then address some objections to the search for universals in the emotion lexicon, particularly when the search involves the use of dictionaries. In addition, we explore potential motives for naming emotions before describing our methodology. Human Universals The identification of universals-the search in the 20th century for the common denominator of cultures or human nature-began

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Universal development of emotion categories in natural language.

Hupka¹,

Lenton²,

Hutchison³

1999

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…In a constructivist view (e.g., Averill, 1974;Hupka, Zaleski, Otto, Reidl, & Tarabrina, 1996), body sensations come about because they are expected to occur as part of emotion processes; they are part of cognitive schemata about physiological events associated with emotions (Philippot & Rime ´, 1997). Rime ´et al (1990) found that schematic stereotypes about bodily concomitants of emotions closely matched the sensations typically reported to be felt during emotion episodes.…”

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Body Sensations Associated With Emotions in Rarámuri Indians, Rural Javanese, and Three Student Samples.

Breugelmans

Poortinga

Ambadar

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Emotion

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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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“…The argument previously made by others (e.g. Hupka et al 1996) and reiterated in the present study is that looking within, rather than simply at each label can provide additional information about culturally salient concerns, values, and goals. Clearly salient in both Ga and Ewe, based on our analysis, is the embodied framing of emotional experiences as the default way to communicate about these internal processes.…”

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“…Some cultural scripts identify physical, bodily responding as the primary component of the emotional experience. In this case, emotion terms themselves-rather than metaphors-often reflect this association (Hupka et al 1996). In these languages, body terms are a component of the basic emotion term itself.…”

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Their Hands Have Lost Their Bones: Exploring Cultural Scripts in Two West African Affect Lexica

Dzokoto

Senft

Kpobi

et al. 2016

J Psycholinguist Res

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Previous research has indicated the importance of embodiment in West African emotion lexica. The current study aims to explore the pervasiveness of this cultural script through the analysis of the emotional lexica of two West African languages (Ga and Ewe) from Southern Ghana that have been featured minimally in previous emotion research. The analysis indicated that embodiment was an important cultural script in both affective lexica. However, interpersonal representations of emotions were also present. Further, emotion words in the two languages differed in the more specific loci of emotions.

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Anger, Envy, Fear, and Jealousy as Felt in the Body: A Five-Nation Study

Cited by 43 publications

References 19 publications

Universal development of emotion categories in natural language.

Universal development of emotion categories in natural language.

Body Sensations Associated With Emotions in Rarámuri Indians, Rural Javanese, and Three Student Samples.

Their Hands Have Lost Their Bones: Exploring Cultural Scripts in Two West African Affect Lexica

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