Placing the face in context: cultural differences in the perception of facial emotion.

By Takahiko Masuda, P. Ellsworth, B. Mesquita, Janxin Leu, Shigehito Tanida, Ellen Van de Veerdonk. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Cultures and Selves (2010, background): “For example, viewing aspects of the world and one’s self as distinct objects and attributes that are separate from their contexts (e.g., Masuda et al., 2005), perceiving one’s self to be consistent across situations (e.g., Suh, 2002), and experiencing well-being in the pursuit of fun and enjoyment…”
Doing emotions: The role of culture in everyday emotions (2017, background): “, 2006), or cultural differences in the expression and perception of emotions (Jack, Garrod, Yu, Caldara, & Schyns, 2012; Masuda et al., 2008); however, the research to date suggests that cultural mandates also shape these other aspects of emotions.”
Affective cognition: Exploring lay theories of emotion. (2015, positive): “…Mondloch, 2012; Mondloch, Horner, & Mian, 2013; Van den Stock, Righart, & de Gelder, 2007), background scenery (Barrett & Kensinger, 2010; Barrett, Mesquita, & Gendron, 2011; Lindquist, Barrett, Bliss-Moreau, & Russell, 2006), and cultural norms (Masuda et al., 2008) when deciding how agents feel.”
Context in Emotion Perception (2011, background): “…(European Americans in the United States in Study 1, Anglo-Saxon visitors to Japan in Study 2) seem to rely primarily on the information in a target face when perceiving emotion, while Japanese make more strategic use of the information in faces surrounding the target (Masuda et al., 2008).”
Social class, sense of control, and social explanation. (2009, methodology): “Here, participants judged the emotions of a focal individual who displayed facial expressions that were either the same as or different from the emotions expressed by four other individuals in the background (Masuda et al., 2008).”
Beyond Facts and Figures: The Role of Emotions in Boardroom Dynamics (2008, neutral): “For example, North Americans and Europeans are less attentive to contextual factors than EastAsians (Masuda et al., 2008).”
Inherently Ambiguous: Facial Expressions of Emotions, in Context (2013, background): “In a related set of experiments, Masuda et al. (2008) examined how FEC of a target’s facial expression is affected by the presence of surrounding individuals.”
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Nonverbal Cues in Emoticons on Twitter: Evidence from Big Data Analysis (2014, background): “…by people from one culture can successfully be decoded by people from another culture (see Ambady & Weisbuch, 2010; Ekman, 1992; Heine, 2010), although emotions are detected more quickly and with higher accuracy between people from the same culture (Marsh et al., 2003; Masuda et al., 2008).”