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The EVE literature shows that victims are perceived as more credible when they display emotional expressions consistent with normative expectations; however, these findings are largely based on Western samples. The present study directly replicated the paradigm developed by Wrede and Ask (2015) with a Turkish sample and examined how cultural differences shape the structure of emotional expectations. A total of 689 adults from across Turkey participated in the study. Participants were presented with scenarios involving five different types of crimes (battery, rape, threat, robbery, and burglary) and asked to assess the likelihood of female and male victims experiencing specific emotions. Factor analyses have shown that, unlike the tripartite structure observed in Western samples, situation-focused and other-directed emotions converge into a single dimension. 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