| Title: |
A Meta-Analytic Review of Cultural Variation in Affect Valuation |
| Authors: |
Tsai, Jeanne, L; Chen, Daniel, S.; Yang, Angela, M.; Cachia, Julie, Y. A.; Blevins, Elizabeth; Ko, Michael; Mathur, Maya; Aragón, Oriana; Arens, Elisabeth; Bencharit, Lucy; Chen, Stephen; Chen, Ying-Chun; Chentsova Dutton, Yulia; Cheung, Benjamin; Chim, Louise; Chow, Philip; Clobert, Magali; Costello, Arezou; de Almeida, Igor; Ditzfeld, Christopher; Doan, Stacey; Floerke, Victoria; Ford, Brett; Fung, Helene; Gentzler, Amy; Harmon-Jones, Eddie; Heine, Steven; Isaacowitz, Derek; Ito, Eiji; Jiang, Da; Kashima, Emiko; Koopmann-Holm, Birgit; Kraus, Brian; Lai, Jocelyn; Lee, Austyn; Li, Lilian; Löckenhoff, Corinna; Luong, Gloria; Mannell, Bradley; Millgram, Yael; Mizrahi Lakan, Shir; Oosterhoff, Benjamin; Painter, Janelle; Park, Bokyung; Palmer, Cara; Parker, Suzanne; Peruel, William; Ruby, Matthew; Salvador, Cristina; Samanez-Larkin, Gregory; Sands, Molly; Saroglou, Vassilis; Severin, Marine; Shim, Yoonji; Swerdlow, Benjamin; Tamir, Maya; Thompson, Renee; Uchida, Yukiko; Yi, Chit Yuen; Yu, Chen-Wei; Zhou, Xiaoyu |
| Contributors: |
Stanford University; University of California San Diego (UC San Diego); University of California (UC); University of Cincinnati (UC); Goethe University Frankfurt = Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main; California State Polytechnic University Pomona (CAL POLY POMONA); Wellesley College; National ChengChi University Taipei (NCCU); Georgetown University Washington (GU); University of British Columbia Canada (UBC); University of Victoria Canada (UVIC); University of Virginia; Laboratoire de psychologie de Caen Normandie (LPCN); Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN); Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU); Kyōto daigaku = Kyoto University; University of Central Arkansas (UCA); Claremont Mckenna College - CMC (USA); University of Toronto; The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK); West Virginia University Morgantown; University of New South Wales Kensington; Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; Washington University in Saint Louis (WUSTL); Chukyo University; The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK); La Trobe University Melbourne; Santa Clara University; Northwestern University Evanston; Cornell University New York; Colorado State University Pueblo (CSUPueblo); Tel Aviv University (TAU); The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ); Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute; The University of Texas at Dallas; Montana State University (MSU); George E. Wahlen Department of VA Medical Center; Western Washington University (WWU); Duke University Durham; Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL); Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ); Lake Forest College; Florida International University Miami (FIU); Beijing Normal University (BNU) |
| Source: |
ISSN: 0033-2909 ; Psychological Bulletin ; https://hal.science/hal-05449185 ; Psychological Bulletin, 2026, 151 (12), pp.1486-1524. ⟨10.1037/bul0000499⟩ ; https://culture-emotion-lab.stanford.edu/sites/culture_emotion_lab/files/media/file/metaanalysisidealaffect.inpress.102925.pdf. |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD; American Psychological Association |
| Publication Year: |
2026 |
| Collection: |
Normandie Université: HAL |
| Subject Terms: |
Ideal affect; Affect Valuation Index; Culture; SES; Age; Gender; [SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology |
| Description: |
International audience ; What affective states do people ideally want to feel, and why? In Affect Valuation Theory (AVT), Tsai, Knutson, & Fung (2006) proposed and observed that how people would ideally like to feel (their "ideal affect") differs from how they actually feel (their "actual affect"), and cultural factors shape people's ideal affect even more than their actual affect. In this individual participant data (IPD) metaanalysis, we re-examined these two premises in a combined data file of over 31,000 participants from 124 datasets collected by different research teams across the world. Consistent with Tsai et al. (2006), we observed that: actual affect and ideal affect are empirically distinct constructs, and cultural differences in ideal affect are larger in magnitude than cultural differences in actual affect. These findings held across research teams, participant populations, and publication status. Importantly, most cultural differences in ideal affect endured over time, including European Americans' greater valuation of high arousal positive (HAP) states compared to East Asian Americans and East Asians. New patterns also emerged: European Americans valued low arousal positive states more over time; differences in ideal affect emerged among specific East Asian cultural groups; and socioeconomic status, gender, and age were also associated with differences in ideal affect. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1037/bul0000499 |
| Availability: |
https://hal.science/hal-05449185; https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000499 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.85D8147B |
| Database: |
BASE |