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Project

Towards emotional understanding in multicultural contexts

Emotions are key to successful social relationships across the lifespan. Understanding others’ emotions helps one follow the course of social interaction and anticipate the possibilities to change it, because the emotions of an interaction partner indicate the meaning of an event to their motives / goals and their potential actions. However, a vast body of research demonstrates cultural differences in emotions that can impede emotional understanding and may stand in the way of forging intercultural relationships. This project examines whether the awareness that emotions are culturally variable leads to better emotional understanding and perceived relationship quality, and whether an ‘emotion-difference’ intervention can leverage this awareness. This project sets the stage for future work on fostering emotional understanding in intercultural interactions as a bottom-up gateway to social cohesion and justice.
Date:1 Oct 2022 →  Today
Keywords:emotion, social competence, multiculturalism, intervention, minority integration
Disciplines:Group and interpersonal relations, Social behaviour and social action