Videos for eliciting emotions in the laboratory settings: normative data and cross-cultural analysis

This paper presents results of piloting nine videos eliciting happiness, sadness, and neutral state in Russian and Azerbaijani samples (N = 100, 68 Russians, 32 Azerbaijanis, mean age 20 years, 68 % females and 32 % males) for the use in laboratory experiments, three videos for each emotion. Six videos — two for each emotion — were selected that induced effectively the target emotions in both cultures. Happy videos induced more intense happiness in Azerbaijani participants. No gender differences were found for Azerbaijan, whereas one of sad videos induced more intense sadness in Russian women compared to men. The selected set of videos can be used in the studies with emotion induction in the laboratory settings including cross-cultural studies in Russian and Azerbaijan.

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Methodological difficulty of cross-cultural studies

Ukrainian society ◽

10.15407/socium2013.02.099 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2013 (2) ◽

pp. 99-111

Author(s):

Oleksandr Stehnii

Keyword(s):

Cultural Studies ◽

Cultural Analysis ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Methodological Difficulty ◽

Cross Cultural Studies ◽

Cross Cultural Analysis

This article reviews the main methodological complexities, that come out from carrying out comparative sociological researches of modern societies, the specificity and meaning of cross-cultural analysis.

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Anthropology and Psychiatry

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.151.4.447 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 151 (4) ◽

pp. 447-454 ◽

Cited By ~ 411

Author(s):

Arthur Kleinman

Keyword(s):

Cultural Studies ◽

Research Literature ◽

Cultural Analysis ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Point Of View ◽

Cultural Dimensions ◽

Standard Format ◽

Cultural Validity ◽

Cultural Research ◽

Cross Cultural Studies

To illustrate the contribution anthropology can make to cross-cultural and international research in psychiatry, four questions have been put to the cross-cultural research literature and discussed from an anthropological point of view: ‘To what extent do psychiatric disorders differ in different societies?’ ‘Does the tacit model of pathogenicity/pathoplasticity exaggerate the biological aspects of cross-cultural findings and blur their cultural dimensions?’ ‘What is the place of translation in cross-cultural studies?’ and ‘Does the standard format for conducting cross-cultural studies in psychiatry create a category fallacy?’ Anthropology contributes to each of these concerns an insistence that the problem of cross-cultural validity be given the same attention as the question of reliability, that the concept of culture be operationalised as a research variable, and that cultural analysis be applied to psychiatry's own taxonomies and methods rather than just to indigenous illness beliefs of native populations.

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Gender differences in allocation choices made by children aged 5 to 6

Polish Psychological Bulletin ◽

10.2478/v10059-011-0007-9 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 42 (2) ◽

pp. 46-51 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tomasz Zaleskiewicz ◽

Anna Hełka

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Young Children ◽

Current Knowledge ◽

Cultural Analysis ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

The Other ◽

Polish Study ◽

Cross Cultural Analysis

Gender differences in allocation choices made by children aged 5 to 6 The main aim of this article is to supplement gaps in current knowledge concerning the development of competences related to goods allocation choices. We conducted a study in which 158 children aged 5 to 6 made choices concerning allocations of goods between themselves and the other, anonymous child. The crucial findings point to boys as more selfish in their choices than girls. Furthermore, we provide evidence for the claim that young children (especially boys) are aware that their choices are egoistic. Since our study adopted a similar methodology to that of the recent Swiss study, we were able to conduct cross-cultural analysis. The comparison of children's choices in the Polish study and the Swiss one pictures Polish children as displaying a stronger egalitarian preferences and revealing egoistic preferences less frequently than the children from Switzerland.

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The sense of obligation is culturally modulated

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002371 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Andrea Bender

Keyword(s):

Cultural Studies ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Human Populations ◽

Cultural Group ◽

Target Article ◽

Sense Of Obligation ◽

Cross Cultural Studies

Abstract Tomasello argues in the target article that, in generalizing the concrete obligations originating from interdependent collaboration to one's entire cultural group, humans become “ultra-cooperators.” But are all human populations cooperative in similar ways? Based on cross-cultural studies and my own fieldwork in Polynesia, I argue that cooperation varies along several dimensions, and that the underlying sense of obligation is culturally modulated.

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The Structure of Wiggins' Interpersonal Circumplex: Cross-Cultural Studies

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027//1015-5759.15.3.196 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 196-205 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Rosario Martínez-Arias ◽

Fernando Silva ◽

Ma Teresa Díaz-Hidalgo ◽

Generós Ortet ◽

Micaela Moro

Keyword(s):

Cultural Studies ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

The Other ◽

Spanish Version ◽

Interpersonal Circumplex ◽

Research Groups ◽

Independent Research ◽

Research Results ◽

Cross Cultural Studies

Summary: This paper presents the results obtained in Spain with The Interpersonal Adjective Scales of J.S. Wiggins (1995) concerning the variables' structure. There are two Spanish versions of IAS, developed by two independent research groups who were not aware of each other's work. One of these versions was published as an assessment test in 1996. Results from the other group have remained unpublished to date. The set of results presented here compares three sources of data: the original American manual (from Wiggins and collaborators), the Spanish manual (already published), and the new IAS (our own research). Results can be considered satisfactory since, broadly speaking, the inner structure of the original instrument is well replicated in the Spanish version.

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