What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza.

ABSTRACT: Emotions are often thought of as internal mental states centering on individuals' subjective feelings and evaluations. This understanding is consistent with studies of emotion narratives, or the descriptions people give for experienced events that they regard as emotions. Yet these studies, and contemporary psychology more generally, often rely on observations of educated Europeans and European Americans, constraining psychological theory and methods. In this article, we present observations from an inductive, qualitative analysis of interviews conducted with the Hadza, a community of small-scale hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, and juxtapose them with a set of interviews conducted with Americans from North Carolina. Although North Carolina event descriptions largely conformed to the assumpti

SUBMITTER: Hoemann K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10776822 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature