This article reviews the study of the role of culture and gender in the relationship between positive and negative emotions.Research shows that culture and gender interact to produce different association pattern between positive and negative emotions.People in independent-based cultures(e.g.the United States and Western European courtiers) experience emotions in oppositional(i.e.bipolar) ways whereas people in interdependent-based cultures(e.g.China,South Korea and Japan) experience emotions in dialectic ways and these patterns are stronger for women than men in both cultures.The discussions for further study can throw light on the issue of emotion psychology.
