The papers in this special issue on culture and emotion outline a new approach to the relationship between culture and emotion which extends beyond the universalism-relativism debate.

Beyond the universality-specifity dichotomy. Cultural perspectives in the linguistic representation of emotion and emotion events. Word and voice: Spontaneous attention to emotional utterances in two languages. Cognitive structure of emotion in terms in Indonesia and The Netherlands. Crying and mood change: A cross-cultural study. Cultural Dimensions, socioeconomic development, climate and emotional hedonic level. Different emotional lives. The role of honour concerns in emotional reactions to offences. The role of ethnicity, gender, emotional content, and contextual differences in physiological, expressive, and self reported emotional responses to imagery. Subject Index

Agneta Fischer, Anthony Manstead