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Cultural Differences and Cross-Cultural Similarities in Appraisals and Emotional Responses

Rutgers University

Nisha Dhawan

University of Allahabad

S. Ilsa Rettek

New School for Social Research

R. K. Naidu

University of Allahabad

Komilla Thapa

University of Allahabad

To conduct a cross-cultural test of a theory specifying the appraisals that elicit particular emotions, undergraduates from India and the United States were asked how they appraised events that caused them to feel sadness, fear, or anger. In both cultures there was evidence that an appraisal of powerlessness characterized incidents leading to sadness and fear, rather than anger; and an appraisal that other persons caused negative events characterized incidents leading to anger, rather than sadness or fear. Also, Indians appraised events as less discrepant from what they had wanted than Americans did; this accounted for lower sadness and anger among Indians. Overall, cultural differences in appraisal explained cultural differences in emotion, due to underlying cross-cultural similarities in appraisal-emotion relationships.

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