Scherer and Colleagues (1988) Asked Participants from Ten Countries to Describe

Scherer and colleagues (1988) asked participants from ten countries to describe common situations, or antecedents, that elicited joy, sadness, anger, and fear. What did they find?

A) All four emotions were elicited by a wide range of antecedents that varied greatly across cultures
B) Fear, being a basic emotion, was elicited by the same antecedents regardless of culture, but there was more variability across culture for the other emotions
C) As predicted by the universality hypothesis, they found that the same basic antecedents were associated with each of the four emotions, regardless of culture.
D) They found that social antecedents for all four emotions were more commonly reported by Americans and Europeans than for the Japanese participants