Context sensitivity in Canadian and Japanese children’s judgments of emotion.
Context sensitivity in Canadian and Japanese children’s judgments of emotion.
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加拿大和日本儿童情绪判断的情境敏感性。
DOI：
10.1007/s12144-016-9446-y
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
2.8
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R.
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作者：
Ishii;K.;Rule;N. O.;& Toriyama;R.
以前的研究表明，东亚人比北美人对语境信息更敏感，而且语境敏感性的文化差异出现在学龄前儿童身上。然而，关于这是否适用于儿童的情绪判断，我们知之甚少。这项研究对加拿大和日本的学龄前儿童进行了测试，并从跨文化角度考察了周围人的面部表情对目标人物情绪判断的影响程度。当背景情绪为负面(正面)时，日本儿童比加拿大儿童更有可能将情绪中立的目标判断为更负面(正面)，表现出同化效应。然而，加拿大儿童表现出了反差效应：当背景情绪是积极的时，他们会认为目标对象的中性情绪更消极。这些数据通过阐明认知过程中的细微差别，扩展了对情绪识别的现有理解，这些细微差别跨越了发展和文化的界限。
Previous studies showed that East Asians are more sensitive than North Americans to contextual information, and that the cultural differences in context sensitivity emerge in preschool children. Yet, little is known about whether this generalizes to children’s emotional judgments. The present study tested Canadian and Japanese preschool children and examined cross-culturally the extent to which facial expressions of surrounding people influence judgments of a target person’s emotion. Japanese children were more likely than Canadian children to judge an emotionally-neutral target as more negative (positive) when the background emotion was negative (positive), demonstrating an assimilation effect. Canadian children, however, showed a contrast effect: judging the target person’s neutral emotion as more negative when the background emotion was positive. These data extend extant understanding of emotion recognition by illuminating nuances in perceptual processes across developmental and cultural lines.