Emotion words used in six European countries

✍ Scribed by Stephanie Van Goozen; Nico H. Frijda

• Book ID: 102174932
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 408 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0046-2772
• DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2420230108

✦ Synopsis

To what extent are the more common emotion words in Western European languages equivalent? Some information on this question, which is relevant for cross cultural emotions research, is collected in the present study. Students from six Western European countries were asked to list all emotion words they could think of in 5 minutes. The most frequently mentioned categories were highly similar across samples. However, considerable differences in relative frequency of presumably equivalent words (close, common translations) in the different languages were also found.