Conditional Promises and Threats in Germany, China, and Tonga

Cognition and Emotion

Bibliographic Data

ID12823107
AuthorsSieghard Beller (University of Freiburg, corresponding author), Andrea Bender (0000-0001-9542-2975, University of Freiburg), Jie Song (0000-0003-4799-3575, University of Freiburg)
Year2009
Volume9
Issue1-2
Pages115-139
Publication date2009-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Cognition and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1567-7095 • E-ISSN: 1568-5373
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/156853709x414674
OpenAlexW2029938749
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Conditional promises and threats are speech acts that aim at changing another person's behavior according to one's own goals. They combine several components on different levels: goals and incentives/penalties on the motivational level, formulations on the linguistic level, obligations on the deontic level, action sequences on the behavioral level, and affective responses on the emotional level. In a cross-cultural study – comparing Germany, China, and the Kingdom of Tonga – we examined the extent to which the cognitive understanding of conditional promises and threats on the various levels is shared across cultures. The results support conceptual universality, but also show that the different components are specifically affected by cultural conventions and values that shape communication styles, moral rules, and attribution tendencies

Action (physics · Attribution · China · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cultural psychology · Deontic logic · Epistemology · Incentive · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Philosophy of mind · Political science · Universality (dynamical systems · Cultural Differences and Values · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology

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