This multidisciplinary, comparative cultural study is intended to examine differences in the norms of experiencing, expressing and regulating the emotions of shame, pride and anger in sub-populations of German and Turkish origin in Berlin and Istanbul. In particular, differences between the two cultures as regards concepts of honor and disgrace and their connection with emotional norms are to be explored. Taking the Affect Valuation Theory (Tsai, 2007) as a basis, we mean to establish the extent to which cultural factors influence the emergence of notions of ideal affects, ideal forms of emotional expression, and ideal forms of emotional regulation that go beyond mere expression, and how far discrepancies between ideal and real emotions (as well as between their expression and their regulation) affect subjective well-being. It is a combined ethnological and psychological study designed to investigate implicit and explicit norm concepts and describe intercultural differences in the application of norms to emotional experience and behavior.

Cooperation partners

Prof. Dr. Haci-Halil Uslucan, Universität Duisburg-Essen

Prof. Dr. Serdar Degirmencioglu, Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Sivas

Publications

Lischetzke, T., Eid, M., Diener, E. (2011, Im Druck). Perceiving one’s own and others’ feelings around the world: The relations of attention to and clarity of feelings with subjective well-being across nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Wertenbruch, M. (2012). Emotionsnormen im Kontext von Migration: Ehrkonzepte bei deutsch- und türkischstämmigen Jugendlichen. Türkeiforschung in Deutschland II - Arbeitsfelder und Perspektiven. Universität Hamburg.

Lischetzke, T., Eid, M. (2011). Diagnostik affektiver Zustände. Amelang, M., Hornke, L.F., Kersting, M. (Eds.). Persönlichkeitsdiagnostik (Reihe Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, Band B/II/4). 411-465. Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Wertenbruch, M. (2011). Living here and feeling there: emotion, culture and migration. Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Meetings. Santa Monica, CA, USA.

Wertenbruch, M. (2011). Examining shame at school: insights from a transcultural German classroom. European Congress of Psychology. Istanbul. poster presentation

Wertenbruch, M., Röttger-Rössler, B. (2011). Scham und Schule. Emotionsethnologische Untersuchungen im schulischen Kontext. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaften Sonderband 2/2011. 241-257.

Courvoisier, D., Eid, M., Lischetzke, T., Schreiber, W. (2010). Psychometric properties for a computerized mobile phone method for assessing mood in daily life. Emotion 10. 115-124. PMID: 20141308.