Context Facilitates Performance on a Classic Cross-Cultural Emotion Perception Task

被引:22
作者
Hoemann, Katie [1 ]
Msafiri, Shani
Roberson, Debi [4 ]
Gendron, Maria [1 ]
Crittenden, Alyssa N. [2 ]
Liu, Qiang [3 ]
Li, Chaojie [3 ]
Ruark, Gregory A. [5 ]
Barrett, Lisa Feldman [1 ,6 ,7 ]
机构
[1] Northeastern Univ, Dept Psychol, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[2] Univ Nevada, Dept Anthropol, Las Vegas, NV 89154 USA
[3] Liaoning Normal Univ, Res Ctr Brain & Cognit Neurosci, Dalian, Peoples R China
[4] Univ Essex, Dept Psychol, Colchester, Essex, England
[5] US Army, Foundat Sci Res Unit, Res Inst Behav & Social Sci, Ft Belvoir, VA USA
[6] Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Dept Psychiat, Boston, MA 02114 USA
[7] Martinos Ctr Biomed Imaging, Charlestown, MA USA
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
emotion; perception; vocalizations; universality; culture; SPONTANEOUS FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; DEFAULT BAYES FACTORS; CHILDRENS RECOGNITION; VOCAL EXPRESSIONS; BASIC EMOTIONS; FACE; CATEGORIZATION; UNIVERSALITY; VALENCE; SPECIFICITY;
D O I
10.1037/emo0000501
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
The majority of studies designed to assess cross-cultural emotion perception use a choice-from-array task in which participants are presented with brief emotion stories and asked to choose between target and foil cues. This task has been widely criticized, evoking a lively and prolonged debate about whether it inadvertently helps participants to perform better than they otherwise would, resulting in the appearance of universality. In 3 studies, we provide a strong test of the hypothesis that the classic choice-from-array task constitutes a potent source of context that shapes performance. Participants from a remote smallscale (the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania) and 2 urban industrialized (China and the United States) cultural samples selected target vocalizations that were contrived for 6 non-English, nonuniversal emotion categories at levels significantly above chance. In studies of anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise, above chance performance is interpreted as evidence of universality. These studies support the hypothesis that choice-from-array tasks encourage evidence for cross-cultural emotion perception. We discuss these findings with reference to the history of cross-cultural emotion perception studies, and suggest several processes that may, together, give rise to the appearance of universal emotions.
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页码:1292 / 1313
页数:22
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