Hi everyone - I'm also a novel at this but it does seem that 'context'
matters for emotional responses, including when using cardiovascular
(CV) measures to confirm this (i've done a quick cut and paste given
other obligations). It does also depend on the paradigm you come from
also (i.e. below symbolic interactionism or psychophysiology ...). So
there is more to this than meets the eye especially when one is not
committed to a single disciplinary perspective ... Perhaps I am off
track?

Framing emotional response
K Gross, LD'Ambrosio - Political psychology, 2004 - jstor.org
... We think this work is important for two reasons. First, it suggests
that context
does matter for emotional response, and thus that frames may matter.
Emotional ...
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Anger and aggression: An essay on emotion
JR Averill - SYMBOLIC INTERACTION, 1985 - Univ California Press
... and meanings entailed in “such matters as honor ... meaning within a
particular social
context” (p. 61 ... The actual emotional response in each context varies
from ...
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[PDF] ►Emotion, plasticity, context, and regulation: Perspectives from
affective neuroscience

RJ Davidson, DC Jackson, NH Kalin - Psychological Bulletin, 2000 -
qeegboard.org
... in question in that specific context.(see Davidson ... information
is stored are still
matters of some ... sion of already learned emotional responses,
Angrilli and col ...
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1. Thinking about gender, thinking about theory: Gender and emotional
experience

SA Shields - Gender and emotion: Social psychological perspectives, 2000
- books.google.com
... answer questions about when and how context matters, we need ... not
sufficient simply
to insert" context" into the ... the question," Who is more emotional?"
to" Who ...
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Personality, culture, and subjective well-being: Emotional and cognitive
evaluations of life
- ►ucsb.edu [PDF] 
E Diener, S Oishi, RE Lucas - Annual Review of Psychology, 2003 - Annual
Reviews
... One explanation for why income matters most at low ... achieving
other goals that are
valued in their culture. ... even when the on-line emotional experiences
during ...
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Subjective well being (SWB) is affected by culture, among other things
...

Psychophysiology (The International Journal of the Society for
Psychophysiological Research) (2001), 38:2:275-291 Cambridge University
Press
Copyright © 2001 Society for Psychophysiological Research
Constraints for emotion specificity in fear and anger: The context
counts
GERHARD  STEMMLER a1c1, MARCUS  HELDMANN a1, CORNELIA A.  PAULS a1 and
THOMAS  SCHERER a1
a1 University of Marburg, Germany

	
Abstract

We investigated psychophysiological responses to fear and anger
inductions during real-life and imagination. Female participants (N =
158) were assigned to a fear-treatment, fear-control, anger-treatment,
or anger-control group. Context (real-life, imagination) was varied in
two sessions of fixed order. Eleven self-report and 29 somatovisceral
variables were registered. Results showed that (a) except during anger
imagination, control groups were emotionless; (b) in control groups,
contexts prompted diverging somatovisceral responses, but similar
emotion self-reports; except during fear imagination, the emotion
inductions (c) were successful and (d) produced specific emotion
reports; (e) during real-life, somatovisceral fear and anger responses
exhibited a marked cardiovascular defense reflex; (f) in addition,
real-life fear showed an adrenaline-like specific response pattern,
whereas real-life anger showed specific forehead temperature and EMG
extensor increases, accompanied by an elevated DBP during imagination. A
Component Model of Somatovisce(Accepted June 18 2000)


Cardiovascular correlates of emotional expression and suppression: Do
content and gender context matter?.
Mendes, Wendy Berry; Reis, Harry T.; Seery, Mark D.; Blascovich, Jim
Current issue feed
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Vol 84(4), Apr 2003,
771-792.
Three studies examined cardiovascular (CV) responses during emotional
expression with empathically responsive strangers. Study 1 demonstrated
that self-relevant emotional expression fostered CV reactivity
consistent with challenge. Study 2 manipulated content of discussion by
assigning participants to 1 of 4 conditions: emotional, nonemotional,
emotional suppression, nonemotional suppression. In same-sex dyads,
emotional suppression elicited CV challenge reactivity whereas emotional
suppression evoked CV threat reactivity, both compared with appropriate
control groups. In opposite-sex dyads, however, emotional expression
engendered CV threat. Because same- and opposite-sex disclosures
differed, Study 3 controlled the content of emotional expression while
manipulating gender context. Results confirmed findings from the first 2
studies, indicating that both context and content of emotional
expression influenced CV effects. Findings are discussed within a
theoretical challenge and threat perspective. (PsycINFO Database Record
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