TY - JOUR A1 - Dametto, Diego A1 - Vieira, Luc A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Blaison, Christophe T1 - Charlemagne’s Legacy BT - A Consensus Analysis of Affective Meanings in French and German Culture JF - Social Psychology Quarterly N2 - We investigate between- and within-country consensus about affective meanings of social identities along the evaluation, potency, and activity dimensions from the affect control theory research tradition. Ratings for 387 (194 male and 193 female) identities were collected from two samples representative of the French (N = 700) and German (N = 700) populations for age, gender, and region. Guided by two preregistered hypotheses based on previous cross-cultural research, our analysis points to considerable cultural consensus between French and Germans who seem to share a common “Carolingian” affective culture; yet some culture-specific patterns concerning the evaluation dimension and evaluation-potency interactions were found to be statistically significant. We interpret these results in terms of known cross-cultural features such as power distance and conceptions of power. KW - Karlssage KW - Semasiologie Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725231205855 SN - 0190-2725 SN - 1939-8999 PB - Sage Publications CY - London ER -