LANGUAGE AND ORGANIZATION OF FILIPINO EMOTION CONCEPTS - COMPARING EMOTION CONCEPTS AND DIMENSIONS ACROSS CULTURES

We examined the cross-cultural comparability of emotion lexicons and t heir conceptual organisation. In Study 1 we derived a comprehensive li st of Filipino emotion adjectives using the judgements of native speak ers. In Study 2 we had Filipino-English bilinguals classify the Filipi no terms into an English emotion taxonomy and concluded that the natur e and range of emotion language, and hence experience, of Filipino and English speakers is similar. In Study 3 we compared Filipino emotion clusters derived from a cluster analysis of semantic similarity judgem ents to clusters found in other languages and to hypothesised universa l or basic emotions. We identified Filipino terms and clusters corresp onding to most, if not all, hypothesised basic emotions. The universal ity of broad Pleasantness and Arousal dimensions of affect was also su pported. The results provided better support for the cross-cultural co mparability of emotion concepts and experience than for a strong socia l constructivist view.