Emotion has a significant influence on, or can even be said to control, human behavior, though historically many cultures and philosophers have for various reasons discouraged allowing this influence to go unchecked.

Whatever a policy allows, the high-pressure culture of tenure-track life often discourages professors from taking advantage of it.

Mr. Kline is an Amish farmer from Fredericksburg, Ohio, and Amish culture discourages what it considers displays of pride.

Some cultures encourage or discourage happiness, sadness, or jealousy, and the free expression of the emotion of disgust is considered socially unacceptable in most cultures.

But the culture of the New Pageant discourages it.

Restrictive cultures overtly discourage sexual activity in unmarried adolescents or until an adolescent undergoes a formal rite of passage.

Traditional Swazi culture discourages safe sexual practices, like condom use and monogamous relationships.

Some cultures and sub-cultures encourage or discourage happiness, sadness, jealousy, excitedness, and many other emotions.

Since South Asian Islamic culture discourages women from going to the mosque and saintly shrines, these venues offer an opportunity for women to pray together and congregate religiously.

And the culture at Capital Cities/ABC, where he got his start in 1974 as a studio supervisor, discouraged the self-promotion that is so prevalent in the entertainment industry.