Studies suggest that emotional complexity—the experience of positive and negative emotion
in response to the same event—is unusual in Western samples. However, recent research�…

Emotional complexity (the co-occurrence of positive and negative affect) is more prevalent in
East Asian than North American cultures. Although researchers have attributed this robust�…

This study investigated cultural differences in emotion experience and expression in
romantic relationships. It was hypothesized that Japanese Americans would report�…

Ethnographic descriptions suggest that compared to European Americans, Chinese
Americans place a greater emphasis on emotional moderation. To assess whether such�…

Previous cross-cultural comparisons of correlations between positive and negative emotions
found that East Asians are more likely than Americans to feel dialectical emotions. However�…

The present study examined the hypothesis that Asian cultures' dialectical way of thinking
influences emotion reports. A dialectical way of thinking sees emotions of the opposite�…

Empirical findings suggest that Chinese and Americans differ in the ways that they describe
emotional experience, with Chinese using more somatic and social words than Americans�…

Group-based emotions are experienced when individuals are engaged in emotion-
provoking events that implicate the in-group. This research examines the complexity of�…

Past research generally suggests that East Asians tolerate opposing feelings or dialectical
emotions more than North Americans. We tested the idea that North Americans would have�…

This study explored the within-person dynamic organization of emotion in East-Asian
Canadian bicultural individuals as they function in two cultural worlds. Using a diary design�…