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Feelings and Relationships
Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner
IN RELATIONSHIPS between people, reason and emotion both play a role. Which of these dominates will depend upon whether we are affective, that is, we show our emotions (in which case we probably get an emotional response in return), or whether we are emotionally neutral in our approach.
Neutral Versus Affective Cultures
Members of cultures that are affectively neutral do not telegraph their feelings but keep them carefully controlled and subdued. In contrast, in cultures high in affectivity people show their feelings plainly by laughing, smiling, grimacing, scowling, and gesturing; they attempt to find immediate outlets for their feelings. We should be careful not to overinterpret ...
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