Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Within-Person Changes in the Structure of
Emotion.- study overview
- Procedure
- Used the same ppts- born in China, living
in Canada
- They asked ppts what they had been mostly
speaking in the 2 hours before study
(chinese/english)
- it works on the idea that Eastern cultures are
more open to contradiction
- They also asked ppts about how they were feeling
- Findings
- They found people who had been speaking English
made more disctinction between happy and sad,
rarely reported feeling a mixture of both
- People who had been speaking Chinese showed
less distinction and so had more contradiction
- Conclusion
- the self can change from moment to
moment and our language can change how
we view ourselves.