Eastern And Western Cultures Perceive Emotions Very Differently

A team of researchers from Canada and Japan have uncovered some remarkable results on how eastern and western cultures assess situations very differently.Across two studies, participants viewed images, each of which consisted of one centre model and four background models in each image. The researchers manipulated the facial emotion (happy, angry, sad) in the centre or background models and asked the participants to determine the dominant emotion of the centre figure.

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Filed under: Psychology on March 15th, 2008