Scholarly debates about the nature of human emotion traditionally pit biological and cultural
influences against one another. Although many existing theories acknowledge the role of …

The specificity principle in acculturation science asserts that specific setting conditions of
specific people at specific times moderate specific domains in acculturation by specific …

'How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood
and turned my understanding upside down'–Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tip** Point …

Psychology has traditionally seen itself as the science of universal human cognition, but it
has only recently begun seriously grappling with cross-cultural variation. Here we argue that …

Migrant life experiences and the migration process offer a rich, complex and under-
examined field for social research on emotion. This article introduces this Special Issue …

As a highly social species, humans generate complex facial expressions to communicate a
diverse range of emotions. Since Darwin's work, identifying among these complex patterns …

Emotions are engagements with a continuously changing world of social relationships. In
the present article, we propose that emotions are therefore best conceived as ongoing …

Highlights•Culturally normative emotions help individuals to achieve important cultural
tasks.•Having culturally normative emotions is associated with greater wellbeing.•Typically …

It is generally assumed that there is greater pressure to conform to social norms in
collectivist cultures than in individualist cultures. However, most research on cultural …

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 …