Placing the face in context: Cultural differences in the perception of facial emotion
Placing the face in context: Cultural differences in the perception of facial emotion
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.94.3.365
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发表时间：
2008-03-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
De Veerdonk, Ellen Van
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作者：
Masuda, Takahiko;Ellsworth, Phoebe C.;De Veerdonk, Ellen Van
两项研究验证了这样一个假设：在从面部表情判断人们的情绪时，日本人比西方人更能从社会背景中吸收信息。在研究1中，参与者观看了描绘一个快乐，悲伤，愤怒或中立的人的漫画，周围的其他人表达了与中心人物相同或不同的情绪。周围人的情绪会影响日本人对中心人物的看法，但不会影响西方人对中心人物的看法。这些差异反映了注意力的差异，正如眼动追踪数据（研究2）所表明的那样：日本人比西方人更关注周围的人。之前关于东西方在情境敏感性上的差异的研究结果可以推广到社会情境，这表明西方人将情绪视为个人感受，而日本人则将其视为与群体感受不可分割的。
Two studies tested the hypothesis that in judging people's emotions from their facial expressions, Japanese, more than Westerners, incorporate information from the social context. In Study 1, participants viewed cartoons depicting a happy, sad, angry, or neutral person surrounded by other people expressing the same emotion as the central person or a different one. The surrounding people's emotions influenced Japanese but not Westerners' perceptions of the central person. These differences reflect differences in attention, as indicated by eye-tracking data (Study 2): Japanese looked at the surrounding people more than did Westerners. Previous findings on East-West differences in contextual sensitivity generalize to social contexts, suggesting that Westerners see emotions as individual feelings, whereas Japanese see them as inseparable from the feelings of the group.