Cultural Differences in Emotional Expression, Experience, and Values
Tsai, J. L. (2021). Why does passion matter more in individualistic cultures? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(14) e2102055118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2102055118. pdf
Bencharit, L.Z., Ho, Y.W., Fung, H.H., Yeung, D., Stephens, N., Romero-Canyas, R. & Tsai, J.L. (2018). Should job applicants be excited or calm?: The role of culture and ideal affect in employment settings. Emotion. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000444. pdf, supplement
Park, B., Qu, Y., Chim, L., Blevins, E., Knutson, B., & Tsai, J.L. (2018). Ventral striatal activity mediates cultural differences in affiliative judgments of smiles. Culture and Brain. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-018-0061-7. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Blevins, E., Bencharit, L.Z., Chim, L., Fung, H.H., & Yeung, D.Y. (2018). Cultural variation in social judgments of smiles: The role of ideal affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000192. pdf, supplement
Chim, L., Hogan, C., Fung, H.H., & Tsai, J.L. (2017). Valuing calm enhances enjoyment of calming (vs. exciting) amusement park rides and exercise. Emotion. Advance online publication. pdf
Sims, T., Koopmann-Holm, B., Jiang, D., Fung, H.H., & Tsai, J.L. (2017). Asian Americans respond less favorably to excited (vs. calm) physicians compared to European Americans. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. Advance online publication. pdf
Park, B., Blevins, E., Knutson, B., & Tsai, J.L. (2017). Neurocultural evidence that ideal affect match promotes giving. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience. 12(7), 1083-1096. pdf, supplement
Koopmann-Holm, B., & Tsai, J.L. (2017). The cultural shaping of compassion. In E. Seppälä, E. Simon-Thomas, S. Brown, M.C. Worline, C.D. Cameron, & J.R. Doty (Eds). Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science (pp. 273-285). Oxford University Press. pdf
Tsai, J.L. (2017). Ideal affect in daily life: Implications for affective experience, health, and social behavior. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 118-128. pdf
Tsai, J.L. & Clobert, M. (in press). Cultural influences on emotion: Empirical patterns and emerging trends. In S. Kitayama & D. Cohen (Eds). Handbook of Cultural Psychology. Oxford University Press. pdf, figures
Tsai, J.L., Ang, J., Blevins, E., Goernandt, J., Fung, H.H., Jiang, D., Elliott, J., Kölzer, A., Uchida, Y., Lee, Y.-C., Lin, Y., Zhang, X., Govindama, Y., & Haddouk, L. (2016). Leaders' smiles reflect cultural differences in ideal affect. Emotion, 16(2), 183-195. pdf
Park, B.K., Tsai, J.L., Chim, L., Blevins, E., & Knutson, B. (2016). Neural evidence for cultural differences in the valuation of positive facial expressions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(2), 243-252. pdf, supplement
Bencharit, L.Z., & Tsai, J.L. (2016). Positive psychology in Asian Americans: Theory and research. In E.C. Chang, C.A. Downey, J.K. Hirsch, & N.J. Lin (Eds.). Positive Psychology in Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups: Theory, Research, and Practice (pp. 37-60). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Chim, L., & Sims, T. (2015). Consumer Behavior, Culture, and Emotion. In S. Ng & A.Y. Lee (Eds.). Handbook of Culture and Consumer Behavior (pp. 68-98). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pdf
Tsai, J.L. & Park, B.K. (2014). The cultural shaping of happiness: The role of ideal affect. In J. Moskowitz & J. Gruber (Eds.). The light and dark sides of positive emotion (pp. 345-362). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pdf
Tsai, J.L. (2013). The cultural shaping of emotion (and other feelings). In R. Biswas-Diener and E. Diener (Eds.). Noba textbook series. Retrieved from http://nobaproject.com/modules/culture-and-emotion pdf
Tsai, J.L. (2013). Dynamics of ideal affect. In D. Hermans, B. Rime, & B. Mesquita (Eds.). Changing emotions (pp.120-126). Psychology Press. pdf
Chentsova-Dutton, Y. & Tsai, J.L. (2010). Self-focused attention and emotional reactivity: The role of culture. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(3), 507-519. pdf
Roberts, N.A., Tsai, J.L., & Coan, J. (2007). Emotion elicitation using dyadic interaction tasks. In J. Allen & J. Coan (Eds.). Handbook of Emotion Elicitation (pp.106-123). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pdf
Tsai, J.L. (2007). Ideal affect: Cultural causes and behavioral consequences. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2(3), 242-259. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Miao, F.F., Seppala, E., Fung, H., & Yeung, D. (2007). Influence and adjustment goals: Sources of cultural differences in ideal affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(6), 1102-1117. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Knutson, B., & Fung, H.H. (2006). Cultural variation in affect valuation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90(2), 288-307. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Levenson, R.W., & McCoy, K. (2006). Cultural and temperamental variation in emotional response. Emotion, 6(3), 484-497. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Chentsova-Dutton, Y. (2003). Variation among European Americans in emotional facial expression. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 34(6), 650-657. pdf
Tsai, J.L. (1999). Culture. In D. Levinson, J. Ponzetti, & P. Jorgensen (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Human Emotions (pp.159-166). New York, NY: Macmillan Press. pdf
Tsai, J.L. & Levenson, R.W. (1997). Cultural influences on emotional responding: Chinese American and European American dating couples during interpersonal conflict. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 28 (5), 600-625. pdf
Role of Ideal Affect in Healthcare Settings
Sims, T. & Tsai, J.L. (2015). Patients respond more positively to physicians who focus on their ideal affect. Emotion, 15(3), 303-318. pdf
Sims, T., Tsai, J.L., Koopmann-Holm, B., Thomas, E., & Goldstein, M.K. (2014). Choosing a physician depends on how you want to feel: The role of ideal affect in health-related decision making. Emotion, 14(1), 187-192. pdf
Negative Affect and Mixed Emotions
Sims, T., Tsai, J.L., Jiang, D., Wang, Y., Fung, H.H., & Zhang, X. (2015). Wanting to maximize the positive and minimize the negative: Implications for mixed affective experience in American and Chinese contexts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109(2), 292-315. pdf
Koopmann-Holm, B. & Tsai, J.L. (2014). Focusing on the negative: Cultural differences in expressions of sympathy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107(6), 1092-1115. pdf
Wong, Y. & Tsai, J.L. (2007). Cultural models of shame and guilt. In J. Tracy, R. Robins & J. Tangney (Eds.). Handbook of Self-Conscious Emotions (pp.210-223). New York, NY: Guilford Press. pdf
Cultural Identity
Zhang, Y.L. & Tsai J.L. (2014). The assessment of acculturation, enculturation, and culture in Asian American Samples. In L. Benuto (Ed.). Guide to Psychological Assessment with Asian Americans (pp. 75-101). New York, NY: Springer. pdf
Chentsova-Dutton, Y. & Tsai, J.L. (2007). Gender differences in emotional response among European Americans and Hmong Americans. Cognition and Emotion, 21(1), 162-181. pdf
Ying, Y.W., Lee, P.A. & Tsai, J.L. (2007). Attachment, sense of coherence, and mental health among Chinese American college students: Variation by migration status. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 31(5), 531-544. pdf
Cheryan, S. & Tsai, J.L. (2006). Ethnic Identity. In F. Leong, A. Inman, A. Ebreo, L. Yang, L. Kinoshita, & F. Fu (Eds.). Handbook of Asian American Psychology (pp. 125-139). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. pdf
Ying, Y., Lee, P.A., & Tsai, J.L. (2006). The experience of college challenges among Chinese Americans: Variation by migration status. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 4(1), 79-97.
Tsai, J.L., Simenova, D., & Watanabe, J. (2004). Somatic and social: Chinese Americans talk about emotion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30(9), 1226-1238. pdf
Ying, Y., Lee, P.A., & Tsai, J.L. (2004). Inventory of college challenges for ethnic minority students: Psychometric properties of a new instrument in Chinese Americans. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 10(4), 351-364. pdf
Ying, Y., Lee, P.A., & Tsai, J.L. (2004). Psychometric properties of the Intergenerational Congruence in Immigrant Families-Child Scale in Chinese Americans. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 35(1), 91-103. pdf
Tsai, J.L., & Chentsova-Dutton, Y. (2002). Different models of cultural orientation in American- and overseas-born Asian Americans. In K. Kurasaki, S. Okazaki, & S. Sue (Eds.). Asian American Mental Health: Assessment Theories and Methods (pp.95-106). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Chentsova-Dutton, Y., & Wong, Y. (2002). Why and how we should study ethnic identity, acculturation, and cultural orientation. In G. Hall & S. Okazaki (Eds.). Asian American psychology: The science of lives in context (pp. 467-491). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Chentsova-Dutton, Y., Friere-Bebeau, L.H., & Przymus, D. (2002). Emotional expression and physiology in European Americans and Hmong Americans. Emotion, 2(4), 380-397. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Morstensen, H., Wong, Y., & Hess, D. (2002). What does "being American" mean?: A comparison of Asian American and European American young adults. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 8(3), 257-273. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Przymus, D.E., & Best, J.L. (2002). Towards an understanding of Asian American interracial dating and marriage. In M. Yalom & L. Carstensen (Eds.). Inside the American Couple (pp. 189-210). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. pdf
Tsai, J. L. (2000). Cultural orientation of Hmong young adults. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 3(3-4), 99-114. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Ying, Y.W., & Lee, P.A. (2001). Cultural predictors of self-esteem: A study of Chinese American female and male young adults. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 7(3), 284-297. pdf
Ying, Y., Lee, P.A., Tsai, J.L., Hung, Y., Lin, M., Wan, C.T. (2001). Asian American college students as model minorities: An examination of their overall competence. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 7(1), 59-74. pdf
Ying, Y. W., Lee, P. A., Tsai, J. L., Lee, Y. J., & Tsang, M. (2000). Network composition, social integration, and sense of coherence in Chinese American young adults. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 3(3-4), 83-98. pdf
Ying, Y., Lee, P.A., Tsai, J.L., Lee, Y.J., & Tsang, M. (2001). Relationship of young adult Chinese Americans with their parents: Variation by migratory status and cultural orientation. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 71(3), 342-349. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Ying, Y., & Lee, P.A. (2000). The meaning of "being Chinese" and "being American": Variation among Chinese American young adults. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 31(3), 302-322. pdf
Ying, Y., Lee, P.A., & Tsai, J.L. (2000). Cultural orientation and racial discrimination: Predictors of coherence in Chinese American young adults. Journal of Community Psychology, 28(4), 427-442. pdf
Emotion Across the Lifespan
Tsai, J.L., Sims, T., Qu, Y., Jiang, D., Thomas, E., & Fung, H.H. (2018, October 8). Valuing excitement makes people look forward to old age less and dread it more. Psychology and Aging. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pag0000295. pdf, supplement
Tsai, J., & Sims, T. (2016). Emotional aging in different cultures: Implications of Affect Valuation Theory. In A. Ong & Corinna Lockenhoff (Eds.). Emotion, Aging, and Health. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. pdf
Jiang, D., Fung, H. H., Sims, T., Tsai, J. L., & Zhang, F. (2016). Limited time perspective increases the value of calm. Emotion, 16(1), 52-62. pdf
Scheibe, S., English, T., Tsai, J.L., & Carstensen, L.L. (2013). Striving to feel good: Ideal affect, actual affect, and their correspondence across adulthood. Psychology and Aging, 28, 160-171. pdf
Fung, H. H., Ho, Y. W., Tam, K-P, Tsai, J., & Zhang, X. (2011). Value moderates age differences in personality: The example of relationship orientation. Personality and Individual Differences, 50 (7), 994-999. pdf
Kwon, Y., Scheibe, S., Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Tsai, J.L., & Carstensen, L.L. (2009). Replicating the positivity effect in picture memory in Koreans: Evidence for cross-cultural generalizability. Psychology and Aging, 24(3), 748-754. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Louie, J., Chen, E.E., & Uchida, Y. (2007). Learning what feelings to desire: Socialization of ideal affect through children's storybooks. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33(1), 17-30. pdf
Roisman, G.I., Tsai, J.L., & Chiang, K.S. (2004). The emotional integration of childhood experience: Physiological, facial expressive, and self-reported emotional response during the Adult Attachment Interview. Developmental Psychology, 40(5), 776-789. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Levenson, R.W., & Carstensen, L.L. (2000). Autonomic, expressive, and subjective responses to emotional films in older and younger Chinese American and European American adults. Psychology and Aging, 15(4), 684-693. pdf
Pasupathi, M., Carstensen, L.L., Turk-Charles, S., & Tsai, J.L. (1998). Emotion and aging. In H. Friedman (Ed.).Encyclopedia of Mental Health (pp. 91-101). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. pdf
Gross, J.J., Carstensen, L.L., Pasupathi, M., Tsai, J.L., Gottestam, K., & Hsu, A.Y.C. (1997). Emotion and aging: Changes in experience, expression, and control. Psychology and Aging, 12(4), 590-599. pdf
Pasupathi, M., Carstensen, L.L., & Tsai, J.L. (1994). Ageism in interpersonal settings. In B. Lott & D. Maluso (Eds.). The Social Psychology of Interpersonal Discrimination (pp. 160-182). New York, NY: Guilford Press. pdf
Emotion, Culture, and Mental Health
Chentsova-Dutton, Y., Ryder, A., & Tsai, J.L. (2014). Understanding depression across cultural contexts. In I. Gotlib & C. Hammen (Eds.). Handbook of Depression, 3rd edition (pp. 337-352). New York, NY: Guilford Press. pdf
Chentsova-Dutton, Y.E., Tsai, J.L., & Gotlib, I. (2010). Further evidence for the cultural norm hypothesis: Positive emotion in depressed and control European American and Asian American women. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 16(2), 284-295. pdf
Chentsova-Dutton, Y., & Tsai, J. (2009). Culture and depression. In R.E. Ingram (Ed.). International Encyclopedia of Depression. New York, NY: Springer Publishing.
Chentsova-Dutton, Y., & Tsai, J. (2009). Understanding depression across cultures. In I. Gotlib & C. Hammen (Eds.). Handbook of Depression, 2nd edition (pp. 363-385). New York, NY: Guilford Press. pdf
Chentsova-Dutton, Y., & Tsai, J.L. (2007). Cultural factors influence the expression of psychopathology. In W. O'Donohue & S. Lilienfeld (Eds.). The Great Ideas of Clinical Science: 18 Concepts That Every Mental Health Practitioners and Research Should Understand (pp. 375-396). New York, NY: Brunner-Taylor. pdf
Chentsova-Dutton, Y., Chu, J., Tsai, J.L., Rottenberg, J., Gross, J.J. & Gotlib, I. (2007). Depression and emotional reactivity: Variation among Asian Americans of East Asian descent and European Americans. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116(4), 776-785. pdf
Butcher, J.N., Mosch, S.C., Tsai, J.L., & Nezami, E. (2006). Cross-cultural applications of the MMPI-2. In J.N. Butcher (Ed.). MMPI-2: A Practitioner's Guide (pp.503-537). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Tsai, J.L., Pole, N., Levenson, R.W., & Muñoz, R.F. (2003). The effects of depression on the emotional responses of Spanish-speaking Latinas. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 9(1), 49-63. pdf
King, S.K., Tsai, J.L., & Chentsova-Dutton, Y. (2002). Psychophysiological Studies of Emotion and Psychopathology. In J.N. Butcher (Ed.). Clinical Personality Assessment (pp. 56-74). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pdf
Tsai, J.L. & Chentsova-Dutton, Y. (2002). Understanding depression across cultures. In I. Gotlib & C. Hammen (Eds.), Handbook of Depression (pp. 467-491). New York, NY: Guilford Press. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Butcher, J.N., Vitousek, K., & Munoz, R. (2001). Culture, ethnicity, and psychopathology. In H.E. Adams & P.B. Sutker (Eds.). The Comprehensive Handbook of Psychopathology (pp.105-127). New York, NY: Plenum Press. pdf
Ying, Y., Lee, P.A., Tsai, J.L., Yeh, Y., & Huang, J. (2000). The conception of depression in Chinese American college students. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 6(2), 183-195. pdf
Tsai, J.L. & Carstensen, L.L. (1996). Clinical intervention with ethnic minority elders. In L.L. Carstensen, B.A. Edelstein, & L. Dornbrand (Eds.). The Practical Handbook of Clinical Gerontology (pp. 76-106). Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE Publications. pdf
Emotion, Religion, and Spirituality
Koopmann-Holm, B., Sze, J., Jinpa, T., & Tsai, J. L. (2020). Compassion meditation increases optimism towards a transgressor. Cognition and Emotion, 34(5), 1028-1035. pdf
Koopmann-Holm, B., Sze, J., Ochs, C., & Tsai, J.L. (2013). Buddhist-inspired meditation increases the value of calm. Emotion, 13(3), 497-505. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Koopmann-Holm, B., Ochs, C., & Miyazaki, M. (2013). The religious shaping of emotion: Implications of affect valuation theory. In R. Paloutzian & C. Park (Eds.). Handbook of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 2nd edition (pp. 274-291). New York, NY: The Guilford Press. pdf
Tsai, J.L., Miao, F., & Seppala, E. (2007). Good feelings in Christianity and Buddhism: Religious differences in ideal affect. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33(3), 409-421. pdf
