UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL EMOTIONS IN RELATION TO SOCIAL CONTEXT
Keywords:
Social Emotions, collectivistic and Independent Cultures, love, anger, jealousy, compassion, forgiveness, envy, moral.Abstract
In many psychological researches, there is a typical trend to capture emotions in their purest form by shedding them off from their socio-cultural context. As a shared reality, they pervade people’s social and professional lives, influence thinking and behaviour and profoundly shape relationships and social interactions, therefore the fundamental role these emotions play in all sociocultural circumstances must be taken into account, and therefore, taking this into account that our emotional lives are socioculturally constituted. Both ‘Social’ and ‘cultural’ of sociocultural term have special significance tin this research paper. This research paper inculcates various types of emotions such as empathy, love, anger, jealously, compassion, forgiveness, envy, moral and its relation to social context. It also taps how expression of emotions differ in individualistic and collectivistic culture.
