Abstract
After a brief summary of the target article, this commentary touches on dangers of ethnocentricity in the study of psychological phenomena, a co-constructive metatheory for emotion-cognition relationships, and dangers of universality in the study of psychological phenomena. Cultural bias does present a problem in research. However, it is not clear that this bias can be avoided by a move to conceptual primitives as a means of searching for universals in emotion. Perhaps studies of emotion would be better served by considering emotion as obtaining from social co-constructive processes. Finally, it is not clear what the 'discovery' of universality provides to our understanding of psychological phenomena. While searches for universality may yield interesting findings, the pronouncement of universality does not.
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