Abstract: This article introduces the actuality of research on the roles of culture and gender in the relationship between positive and negative emotion. The researchers propose that culture and gender interact to produce fundamentally different patterns of association between positive and negative emotion. People in independent-based culture (e.g. the United States) experience and express emotion in oppositional (i.e. bipolar) ways, whereas people in interdependent-based culture (e.g. China) experience and express emotion in dialectic ways. The patterns are stronger for women than men in both cultures. Finally some issues which are worth while regarding in the domain are discussed.

Key words: culture, gender, positive and negative emotion.