Table 1.

Means and standard deviations for participants’ button press reports of feeling strength to emotional narratives and relatively unemotional control narratives, and participants’ expressiveness ratings during the interview. Emotion strength ranges from no experienced emotion (1) to overwhelmingly strong emotion (4). Expressiveness ranges from low (1) to high (4).

	Chinese		American
	Male	Female	Male	Female
Mean feeling strength (SD)
Emotion	2.44 (.46)	2.52 (.58)	2.30 (.37)	2.25 (.41)
Control	1.53 (.33)	1.56 (.58)	1.37 (.22)	1.31 (.24)
Expressiveness rating (SD)	1.67 (.31)	2.18 (.52)	2.59 (.53)	2.25 (.38)