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Culture Differences in Emotional Knowledge

A Study in Mexico, Chile, Belgium and the Basque Country (Spain)

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Everyday Conceptions of Emotion

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The representation of emotions may be seen as a protoypical scenario of attributes of affective states (Russell, 1991). The main type of attributes of affective states are: a) antecedents, or events which produce emotions; b) internal reactions (bodily and motor changes, subjective or “mental” changes); c) felt states of action-readiness, tendencies to act, instrumental and expressive behaviors; d) tendencies to cope and regulation (Russell, 1991; Mesquita & Frijda, 1992).

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  1. The Basque Country University, P.O. Box 1249, San Sebastian, 20008, Spain

    D. Paez & A. I. Vergara

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  1. Department of Psychology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

    James A. Russell

  2. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    José-Miguel Fernández-Dols

  3. Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Antony S. R. Manstead

  4. Department of Anthropology & School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    J. C. Wellenkamp

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Paez, D., Vergara, A.I. (1995). Culture Differences in Emotional Knowledge. In: Russell, J.A., Fernández-Dols, JM., Manstead, A.S.R., Wellenkamp, J.C. (eds) Everyday Conceptions of Emotion. NATO ASI Series, vol 81. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8484-5_24

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