An experience sampling and cross-cultural investigation of the relation between pleasant and unpleasant affect

By Christie Napa Scollon, E. Diener, S. Oishi, R. Biswas-Diener. 2005

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Culture and Emotion (2012, background): “But Scollon et al. (2005) indicated that pleasant and unpleasant feelings are rarely experienced at the same time across cultures, and Leu et al. (2010) indicated that cultural differences in dialectical emotions may occur more frequently in positive situations only.”
The experience of emotion. (2007, background): “…evidence shows that people can represent their experience in a dialectic fashion (Bagozzi et al. 1999, Kitayama et al. 2000, Schimmack et al. 2002, Scollon et al. 2005), and this has led some to wonder whether pleasure and displeasure really configure as a bipolar dimension of experience.”
Prospects for an integrated trait and cultural psychology (2009, background): “For example, Scollon et al. (2005) found that positive and negative affects were positively related among Asian Americans, Japanese and Indians, but not among European or Hispanic Americans.”
Emotions Across Cultures and Methods (2004, background): “Second, Scollon et al. (2005) and Eid and Diener (2001) found less cultural variability in unpleasant emotions, and Scollon et al. (2005) found strong evidence that the negative emotions consistently covaried with one another, regardless of culture.”