Perceptions of emotion from facial expressions are not culturally universal: evidence from a remote culture.
Perceptions of emotion from facial expressions are not culturally universal: evidence from a remote culture.
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10.1037/a0036052
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2014-04
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Barrett LF
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Gendron M;Roberson D;van der Vyver JM;Barrett LF
人们普遍认为，某些情绪在面部表情中是公认的。最近的证据表明，西方的感知（例如，皱眉是愤怒）依赖于实验中嵌入的美国情感概念的线索。由于这些线索是跨文化实验方法的标准特征，我们假设普遍性的证据取决于这一概念背景。在我们的研究中，来自美国和辛巴族的参与者将摆姿势的面部表情图像按情绪类型分类。在没有情感概念线索的情况下，Himba参与者没有表现出假定的“普遍”模式，而美国参与者则表现出假定的普遍特征模式。有了情感概念的线索，两种文化的参与者都产生了更接近假定的“普遍”模式的分类，尽管实质性的文化差异仍然存在。我们的研究结果表明，情绪的感知不是普遍的，而是取决于文化和概念背景。
It is widely believed that certain emotions are universally recognized in facial expressions. Recent evidence indicates that Western perceptions (e.g., scowls as anger) depend on cues to US emotion concepts embedded in experiments. Since such cues are standard feature in methods used in cross-cultural experiments, we hypothesized that evidence of universality depends on this conceptual context. In our study, participants from the US and the Himba ethnic group sorted images of posed facial expressions into piles by emotion type. Without cues to emotion concepts, Himba participants did not show the presumed “universal” pattern, whereas US participants produced a pattern with presumed universal features. With cues to emotion concepts, participants in both cultures produced sorts that were closer to the presumed “universal” pattern, although substantial cultural variation persisted. Our findings indicate that perceptions of emotion are not universal, but depend on cultural and conceptual contexts.