Cross-Cultural Comparison of Relationships between Empathy and Implicit Theories of Emotions (in Chinese and Russians).

The current manuscript presents the results of a cross-cultural comparison of the relationships between empathy and implicit theories of emotion in individuals from China and Russia. We hypothesized that the members of the Chinese culture would differ from the more Western Russian participants in terms of relationships between the various components of the emotional domain. Thus, we aimed to identify latent personality profiles while hypothesizing that the Chinese sample would demonstrate more prominent links between empathy and implicit theories regarding the possibility of controlling emotions.

Personality regulation of decisions on physical distancing: Cross-cultural comparison (Russia, Azerbaijan, China).

The present study investigated cross-cultural comparison of the personality variables (rationality, risk readiness, empathy, Dark Triad traits, implicit theories of emotions) in predicting decisions on physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample included 1077 participants from Russia, Azerbaijan, and China. After reporting if they trust the media, participants chose from different reasons why they wear or don't wear a mask: care for self vs others, risk for oneself vs others, autonomy for oneself vs others, risk estimation, law-abidingness; then participants completed questionnaires.