A CROSS CULTURAL STUDY OF EMOTION

我们将重复我们在美国进行的实验 印度尼西亚的非西方文化，苏门答腊岛的米南卡堡人。工作 我们认为，在另一种文化中，有必要帮助解决这场争论 关于如何解释我们最近关于表达式和 情绪生理学：(1)自主神经有不同的模式 神经系统(ANS)对愤怒、恐惧、厌恶和悲伤的活动； 自愿表现出普遍发出信号的面部表情 这些情绪会产生特定于情绪的ANS活动。我们希望 重复我们的发现，从而支持我们的理论，即 这些现象都是基于生物学的。我们还希望发现具体的 区别米南卡堡人和美国人的不同之处 从而开始描绘出文化对这些生物的影响 情绪中的成分。

We will repeat experiments we have performed in the United States in a non-Western culture in Indonesia, among the Minangkabau in Sumatra. Work in another culture is necessary, we believe, to help settle the debate about how to interpret our two recent findings on the expression and physiology of emotion: (1) there are different patterns of autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity for anger, fear, disgust and sadness; (2) voluntary performance of the facial expressions that universally signal these emotions generates emotion-specific ANS activity. We expect to replicate our findings, thereby supporting our theory which proposes that these phenomena are biologically based. We also expect to uncover specific differences which distinguish the Minangkabau from the American subjects, thereby beginning to delineate cultural influences on these biological components in emotion.