Fundamentals of Japanese Emotional Experience

The result of a five-year study into Japanese emotional experience, this book offers a comprehensive, ethno-semantic mapping of Japanese emotion concepts. Drawing on typicality ratings, category sorting, semantic differentiation, and open-ended surveys, Dr. Bradshaw identifies nine primary emotion clusters, from love and enjoyment to loneliness, fear, and envy, revealing how Japanese emotional life is organized around core cultural concepts like amae (indulgent dependence) and enryo (social restraint). A rigorous, original contribution to cross-cultural psychology, based on the author’s doctoral dissertation in Social Psychology.