Mapping Emotional Contexts across Cultures: A Topic Modeling Approach to Pain, Anger, and Joy

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Keyword: Linguistics

Abstract: This study examines pain, anger, and joy across eight cultural groups (45+ countries) based on participants’ descriptions of real-life, emotion-evoking scenarios. Using BERTopic, an embedding-based topic modeling framework, we identified recurring themes. Chi-square analyses revealed significant cross-cultural variation and overlap in topics, underscoring how sociocultural contexts shape emotional life.

• Marie-Pier Plouffe-Demers (Presenting Author)
• Grégoire Winterstein (Author)
• Samuel Laperle (Author)
• Seyed Habib Saravani (Author)
• Danielle Samson (Author)
• Diego Leblanc (Author)
• Daniel Fiset (Author)
• Rémi Coté (Author)
• Ye Zhang (Author)
• Marc Waterfield (Author)
• Caroline Blais (Author)