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The Influence of Intimacy and Gender on Emotions in Mobile Phone Email

The Influence of Intimacy and Gender on Emotions in Mobile Phone Email

Yuuki Kato, Douglass J. Scott, Shogo Kato
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781616928926|ISBN10: 1616928921|EISBN13: 9781616928940
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-892-6.ch012
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Kato, Yuuki, et al. "The Influence of Intimacy and Gender on Emotions in Mobile Phone Email." Affective Computing and Interaction: Psychological, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Perspectives, edited by Didem Gökçay and Gülsen Yildirim, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 262-279. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-892-6.ch012

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Kato, Y., Scott, D. J., & Kato, S. (2011). The Influence of Intimacy and Gender on Emotions in Mobile Phone Email. In D. Gökçay & G. Yildirim (Eds.), Affective Computing and Interaction: Psychological, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Perspectives (pp. 262-279). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-892-6.ch012

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Kato, Yuuki, Douglass J. Scott, and Shogo Kato. "The Influence of Intimacy and Gender on Emotions in Mobile Phone Email." In Affective Computing and Interaction: Psychological, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Perspectives, edited by Didem Gökçay and Gülsen Yildirim, 262-279. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-892-6.ch012

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the roles of interpersonal closeness and gender on the interpretation and sending of emotions in mobile phone email messages1. 91 Japanese college students were shown scenarios involving either a friend or an acquaintance describing situations intended to evoke one of four emotions: Happiness, sadness, anger, or guilt. The participants’ rated their emotions and composed replies for each scenario. Analysis revealed that in the happy and guilt scenarios, emotions experienced by the participants were conveyed to their partners almost without change. However, in the sad and angry scenarios, the emotions sent to the partners were weaker than the actual emotions experienced. Gender analysis showed that men were more likely to experience and express anger in the anger scenario, while women were more likely to experience and express sadness in the anger scenario. In addition, more women’s replies contained emotional expressions than did the men’s messages.

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