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| Title |
Feeling Bad About Being Sad: The Role of Social Expectancies in Amplifying Negative Mood
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| Published in |
Emotion, February 2012
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| DOI | 10.1037/a0024755 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Brock Bastian, Peter Kuppens, Matthew J. Hornsey, Joonha Park, Peter Koval, Yukiko Uchida |
| Abstract |
Our perception of how others expect us to feel has significant implications for our emotional functioning. Across 4 studies the authors demonstrate that when people think others expect them not to feel negative emotions (i.e., sadness) they experience more negative emotion and reduced well-being. The authors show that perceived social expectancies predict these differences in emotion and well-being both more consistently than-and independently of-personal expectancies and that they do so by promoting negative self-evaluation when experiencing negative emotion. We find evidence for these effects within Australia (Studies 1 and 2) as well as Japan (Study 2), although the effects of social expectancies are especially evident in the former (Studies 1 and 2). We also find experimental evidence for the causal role of social expectancies in negative emotional responses to negative emotional events (Studies 3 and 4). In short, when people perceive that others think they should feel happy, and not sad, this leads them to feel sad more frequently and intensely. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 23 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 30% |
| Indonesia | 2 | 9% |
| France | 1 | 4% |
| Comoros | 1 | 4% |
| Australia | 1 | 4% |
| Korea, Republic of | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 10 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 19 | 83% |
| Scientists | 3 | 13% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 215 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 208 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 41 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 38 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 25 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 19 | 9% |
| Researcher | 13 | 6% |
| Other | 37 | 17% |
| Unknown | 42 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 131 | 61% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 7 | 3% |
| Sports and Recreations | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 16 | 7% |
| Unknown | 39 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 202. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 December 2023.
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