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Dichotomized accounts of emotions and culture, which tend to carve complex human emotional life fields into two pre-defined conceptual poles, are challenged to consider continuities and discontinuities between cultural ideals and personal experiences, as well as between normative collective cultural meanings and personally transformed versions of the cultural meanings. An illustration of an alternative methodological and analytic scheme approaching the study of guilt and shame in Confucianism-based (Taiwanese) Chinese cultural worlds is presented. Methodological considerations for researching emotions in culturally-constituted relational worlds are also discussed.

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culture emotion guilt vs. shame methodological alternative relational world

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Emotions in Culturally-Constituted Relational Worlds

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