This article reports differences across 23 countries on 2 processes of emotion regulation – reappraisal and suppression. Cultural dimensions were correlated with country means on both and the relationship between them. Cultures that emphasized the maintenance of social order – that is, those that were long-term oriented and valued embeddedness and hierarchy – tended to have higher scores on suppres- sion, and r...
Despite the importance of the concept of cultural display rules in explaining cultural differences in emo- tional expression and despite the fact that it has been more than 30 years since this concept was coined, there is yet to be a study that surveys display rules across a wide range of cultures. This article reports such a study. More than 5,000 respondents in 32 countries completed the Display Rule Assessme...