Smile to see the forest and sea: beyond happy, anger, or sad

Citations Over Time

Abstract

Human emotion factors were assessed for a sample of 299 Yoruba-speaking students with a questionnaire administered in Ibadan metropolis. The present study reports a repeated-measure multiple discriminant function analysis for individual items across raters. Neither the Interest subscale or Surprise subscale nor the Guilt subscale demonstrated significant retest correlations in a comparison of the General and Specific Depression conditions, and also of the Specific Depression and pre-examination conditions. Practical implications of these findings for uplifting individual happiness, collective identity and sense of connection to others, as well as theoretical implications of these findings for the nature of attitudes, emotions and intergroup relations are explored.