{"id":6362,"date":"2011-05-02T06:41:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humintell.com\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2011-09-23T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T23:55:21","slug":"positive-emotions-and-asians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/2011\/05\/positive-emotions-and-asians\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive Emotions and Asians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9150\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/2011\/05\/positive-emotions-and-asians\/asian-professional-women\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9150\" title=\"Asian Professional Women\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/asains-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a>If you think happy thoughts then you will eventually become happier.\u00a0 Is this true?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Much research has shown that what a person portrays as reality can become their reality.\u00a0 If you smile even when you\u2019re sad you will become less sad.\u00a0 Does this always work?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a new study, posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2011-04\/uow-pwt042211.php\">EurekAlert <\/a>, performed by psychologists at the University of Washington, this might be true for many European Americans but is found lacking for the Asian American population.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This study\u00a0 published in the online journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apa.org\/pubs\/journals\/emo\/index.aspx\">Emotion <\/a>, showed that for Asian Americans there was no correlation between positive emotions and less stress or depression as was shown for their European-American counter parts.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&amp;id=2011-06223-001\">study\u2019s <\/a>findings reveal that Asians interpret and react to positive emotions differently in regards to their mental health.\u00a0 This is significant considering that Asian make up 60% of the world population.<\/p>\n<p>For example, upon winning an award the typical Asian response would be \u201cI\u2019m so happy I\u2019m afraid.\u201d\u00a0 Their achievement would trigger feelings of happiness for the achievement combined with concern that others would be jealous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The researchers suggest that the blending of emotions is common among Asians and may be contributed to by Buddhist beliefs and yin-yang attitudes, that happiness either leads to suffering or is impossible to obtain and that life is a natural balance of good and bad.<\/p>\n<p>Janxin Leu, UW assistant professor of psychology purports, mindfulness therapies that encourage patients to pay attention to the good and bad will likely work better and [patients should] \u201cobserve when they feel good and bad and notice that both will disappear.\u00a0 Everything passes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This analysis suggests that although humans share seven universal facial expressions of emotion (fear, sadness, anger, contempt, surprise, joy and disgust) across cultures our internalization of these emotions is divergent because of cultural differences and traditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think happy thoughts then you will eventually become happier.\u00a0 Is this true?\u00a0 Much research has shown that what a person portrays as reality can become their reality.\u00a0 If you smile even when you\u2019re sad you will become less sad.\u00a0 Does this always work?\u00a0 According to a new study, posted on EurekAlert , performed&hellip; 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