title: Culture and group-based emotions: could group-based emotions be dialectical?
abstract: Group-based emotions are experienced when individuals are engaged in emotion-provoking events that implicate the in-group. This research examines the complexity of group-based emotions, specifically a concurrence of positive and negative emotions, focusing on the role of dialecticism, or a set of folk beliefs prevalent in Asian cultures that views nature and objects as constantly changing, inherently contradictory, and fundamentally interconnected. Study 1 found that dialecticism is positively associated with the complexity of Chinese participants' group-based emotions after reading a scenario depicting a positive intergroup experience. Study 2 found that Chinese participants experienced more complex group-based emotions compared with Dutch participants in an intergroup situation and that this cultural difference was mediated by dialecticism. Study 3 manipulated dialecticism and confirmed its causal effect on complex group-based emotions. These studies also suggested the role of a balanced appraisal of an intergroup situation as a mediating factor.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , The Chinese University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong SAR , The People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Minjie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: b School of Psychology and Speech Pathology , Curtin University , Perth , Australia.
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hamamura
authors.affiliation: c Department of Social Psychology , University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam , The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Bertjan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Doosje
authors.affiliation: d Graduate School of Management , Kyoto University , Kyoto , Japan.
authors.forename: Satoko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.affiliation: e Faculty of Economics , Shiga University , Hikone , Japan.
authors.forename: Kosuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takemura
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012933:Social Identification; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Group-based emotions; balanced appraisal; culture; dialecticism; in-group identification