Cultural neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field of research that investigates interrelations
among culture, mind and the brain. Drawing on both the growing body of scientific evidence …

Emotional experience is culturally constructed. In this review, we discuss evidence that
cultural differences in emotions are purposeful, helping an individual to meet the mandate of …

Informed by a new theoretical framework that assigns a key role to cultural tasks (culturally
prescribed means to achieve cultural mandates such as independence and …

Emotion regulation promotes an individual's social adjustment, Having an emotion means to
take a stance, to have a particu-lar relationship with the world (Solomon, 2004), and to have …

The emotional experiences of people who live together tend to be similar; this is true not
only for dyads and groups but also for cultures. It raises the question of whether immigrants' …

People often find truth and meaning in claims that have no regard for truth or empirical
evidence. We propose that one reason is that people value connecting and fitting in with …

Accumulating evidence suggests that North Americans tend to focus on central objects
whereas East Asians tend to pay more attention to contextual information in a visual scene …

The current research tested the idea that it is the cultural fit of emotions, rather than certain
emotions per se, that predicts psychological well-being. We reasoned that emotional fit in …

Appraisal theories of emotion propose that the emotions people experience correspond to
their appraisals of their situation. In other words, individual differences in emotional …

Guilt and shame proneness are commonly thought to be associated with culture, yet
research on this relationship is fragmented and often inconsistent. In a review of the existing …