Feeling bad about being sad: The role of social expectancies in amplifying negative mood
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Bastian, Brock, Kuppens, Peter, Hornsey, Matthew J., Park, Joohna, Koval, Peter and Uchida, Yukiko. (2012). Feeling bad about being sad: The role of social expectancies in amplifying negative mood. Emotion. 12(1), pp. 69 - 80. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024755
Authors | Bastian, Brock, Kuppens, Peter, Hornsey, Matthew J., Park, Joohna, Koval, Peter and Uchida, Yukiko |
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Abstract | Our perception of how others expect us to feel has significant implications for our emotional functioning. Across 4 studies the authors demonstrate that when people think others expect them not to feel negative emotions (i.e., sadness) they experience more negative emotion and reduced well-being. The authors show that perceived social expectancies predict these differences in emotion and well-being both more consistently than—and independently of—personal expectancies and that they do so by promoting negative self-evaluation when experiencing negative emotion. We find evidence for these effects within Australia (Studies 1 and 2) as well as Japan (Study 2), although the effects of social expectancies are especially evident in the former (Studies 1 and 2). We also find experimental evidence for the causal role of social expectancies in negative emotional responses to negative emotional events (Studies 3 and 4). In short, when people perceive that others think they should feel happy, and not sad, this leads them to feel sad more frequently and intensely. |
Keywords | culture; emotion norms; expectancies; ruminative self-focus; social appraisal; sad; negative mood |
Year | 2012 |
Journal | Emotion |
Journal citation | 12 (1), pp. 69 - 80 |
Publisher | American Psychological Association |
ISSN | 1528-3542 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024755 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-84864349955 |
Page range | 69 - 80 |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | United States of America |
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