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Identifying and Managing Cultural Emotions: Zoom Session Dialogue

Theodoric Manley, PhD

Identifying Cultural Emotions

Name three cultural emotions you have noticed when observing people walking down the street? Use the chat function.

Managing the intensity of cultural emotions

Discuss how you manage emotional intensity during personal, social, and public encounters.

Turner and Stets (2005) Intensity of Primary Emotions “On the Origins of Human Emotions” (p. 73),

Primary Emotions--Universal	Low-Intensity	Moderate Intensity	High Intensity
Happiness— Satisfaction	Content, sanguine, serenity, gratified	Cheerful, buoyant, friendly, amiable, enjoyment	Joy, bliss, rapture, jubilant, gaiety, elation, delight, thrilled, exhilarated
Fear—Aversion	Concern, hesitant, reluctance, shyness	Misgivings, trepidations, anxiety, scared, alarmed, unnerved, panic	Terror, horror, high anxiety
Anger—Assertion	Annoyed, agitated, irritated, vexed, perturbed, nettled, rankled, piqued	Displeased, frustrated, belligerent, contentious, hostility, ire, animosity, offended, consternation	Dislike, loathing, disgust, hate, despise, detest, hatred, seething, wrath, furious, inflamed, incensed, outrage
Sadness--Disappointment	Discouraged, downcast, dispirited	Dismayed, disheartened, glum, resigned, gloomy	Sorrow, woeful, heartsick, pained, despondent, anguished, dejected, crestfallen

Theory (s) of Cultural Emotions

Theory: a set of interrelated ideas, concepts, and variables developed to understand, interpret, and explain cultural emotions.

understand (explore),

interpret (define),

explain (cause and correlation)

What ideas, concepts, and variables can you think of to understand, interpret, and explain cultural emotions? Use the chat or voice