U05d1 Regulation of Emotions

Have you ever notice how people from different cultures express themselves?

Having emotion is a universal expression of human occurrence. Human emotions have developed into a multifaceted and distinguish influence. However verbal communication let human beings construct excellent characteristics along with emotions, and culture is a significant cause when understanding emotions.

Altogether human beings in every culture have emotions, and we have primarily similar kinds of emotions (i.e., anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise). Consequently emotion is a universal force within the human race. However, in understanding the correlation between human emotion and culture, one must be aware of the fact that not all emotions should be measured the alike (Matsumoto & Juang, 2013).

Moreover, cultural regulation of emotion plays a major role in how people from diverse cultures express themselves. In beginning, cultural regulate our biologically-based basic emotions. Then cultures help to construct distinct emotional occurrences that go farther than the basic emotions. And lastly, cultures help to construct perceptions, meaning, attitudes, values, and beliefs about emotion (Matsumoto & Juang, 2013).

For example, during a visit to the doctor’s office, I encountered a Japanese family (i.e., father, mother and son), who brought their son in for his annual school physical. While I set in the next room, I began focusing unconcernedly on the activities and conversations in the next room (at this time the door was open, which previously it had been closed for confidentiality reasons). Soon there after a nurse entered the Japanese family room and informed the parents and the child that the examination is would soon be over, however, the doctor had ordered that the child be inoculated. Immediately I braced myself, because I had