Social Norms in Cinema: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Shame, Pride and Prejudice

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11333v5
• Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 01:06:42 GMT
• Title: Social Norms in Cinema: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Shame, Pride and Prejudice
• Authors: Sunny Rai, Khushang Jilesh Zaveri, Shreya Havaldar, Soumna Nema, Lyle Ungar, Sharath Chandra Guntuku,
• Abstract summary: We introduce the first cross-cultural dataset of over 10k shame/pride-related expressions. We find significant cross-cultural differences in shame and pride expression aligning with known cultural tendencies of the USA and India. Women are more sanctioned across cultures and for violating similar social expectations.
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• Abstract: Shame and pride are social emotions expressed across cultures to motivate and regulate people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In this paper, we introduce the first cross-cultural dataset of over 10k shame/pride-related expressions, with underlying social expectations from ~5.4K Bollywood and Hollywood movies. We examine how and why shame and pride are expressed across cultures using a blend of psychology-informed language analysis combined with large language models. We find significant cross-cultural differences in shame and pride expression aligning with known cultural tendencies of the USA and India -- e.g., in Hollywood, shame-expressions predominantly discuss self whereas shame is expressed toward others in Bollywood. Women are more sanctioned across cultures and for violating similar social expectations.

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