Display Rules (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Display rules are a social group's informal norms about when, where, and how one should express emotions. Expressions of emotions vary to a great degree and hold significant meaning with great value of determining ones cultural and social identity. Display rules identify these expressions to a precise situation in a suitable context. Research has shown that emotions can be affected by display rules without ensuing a feeling. Developmental research according to Matsumoto (1990) has revealed that display rules become differentiated with age and the presence of another individual has been shown to inhibit both posed and spontaneous expressions. Most of these expressions whether posed or spontaneous are adopted by the socially and cultured environment which they have derived.