scholarly journals The Relationship Between Emotion Recognition from Facial Expression and Self-Construal

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Shinnosuke Ikeda
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Relational Self ◽  
Facial Cues ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Eastern Cultures ◽  
High Degree

Previous studies have identified cultural differences in the patterns of emotion recognition, with Eastern cultures emphasizing emotional expression through the eyes and Western cultures emphasizing the facial expression around the mouth. The influence of self-construal has been considered a factor of these cultural differences, but no direct examination has been conducted to clarify how cultural factors are related to self-construal. To examine this relationship and exclude cultural influences other than relational self-construal, this study involved three experiments regarding self-construal and emotion recognition in Japanese subjects. The results showed that the participants perceive sadness more strongly through the eye region when they have a high degree of interdependence, and they perceive happiness more strongly through the mouth region when they have a high degree of independence. The results partially confirm the results of previous research and highlight that self-construal plays a role in interpreting facial cues; these findings suggest that more detailed studies and research focusing on other cultures should be conducted to clarify (1) cultural influence on self-construal and (2) cultural influence on emotion recognition.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Emotion Recognition from Facial Expression and Self-Construal

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Shinnosuke Ikeda
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Relational Self ◽  
Facial Cues ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Eastern Cultures ◽  
High Degree

Previous studies have identified cultural differences in the patterns of emotion recognition, with Eastern cultures emphasizing emotional expression through the eyes and Western cultures emphasizing the facial expression around the mouth. The influence of self-construal has been considered a factor of these cultural differences, but no direct examination has been conducted to clarify how cultural factors are related to self-construal. To examine this relationship and exclude cultural influences other than relational self-construal, this study involved three experiments regarding self-construal and emotion recognition in Japanese subjects. The results showed that the participants perceive sadness more strongly through the eye region when they have a high degree of interdependence, and they perceive happiness more strongly through the mouth region when they have a high degree of independence. The results partially confirm the results of previous research and highlight that self-construal plays a role in interpreting facial cues; these findings suggest that more detailed studies and research focusing on other cultures should be conducted to clarify (1) cultural influence on self-construal and (2) cultural influence on emotion recognition.

scholarly journals Exploring Cultural Differences in Expressive Suppression and Emotion Recognition

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 664-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Sun ◽  
Anna S. Lau
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Recognition Accuracy ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Expressive Suppression ◽  
Emotion Suppression ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Interdependent Self

Previous research has shown that the habit of suppressing emotional expressions is associated with long-term, general reductions in social cognitive abilities and interpersonal adjustment. This may be because theoretically, habitual suppression requires the fixation of attention to the self instead of to others. The present research explored the association between the habitual tendency to suppress one’s own emotions and accuracy in recognizing the emotions of others. Emotion recognition accuracy was tested across two tasks, a limited-channel task that presents limited emotional information and a multimodal full-channel task. We further explored cultural differences in this association given that expressive suppression may be normative for individuals of Asian descent due to cultural motivations toward social harmony and interdependence. Our findings revealed few cultural group differences. U.S.-born Asian Americans outperformed foreign-born Asian Americans and European Americans in limited-channel emotion recognition. However, the three groups did not differ in terms of interdependent self-construal, habitual emotion suppression, and full-channel emotion recognition ability. Interdependent self-construal was related to greater habitual suppression and emotion recognition accuracy in the full-channel task. Habitual emotion suppression was negatively related to limited-channel but not full-channel emotion recognition. There was no evidence of cultural differences in the link between habitual suppression and emotion recognition.

Inferring the Emotions of Friends Versus Strangers

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 933-945 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Ma-Kellams ◽  
Jim Blascovich
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Empathic Accuracy ◽  
East Asians ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
European Americans ◽  
Relationship Types ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Eastern Cultures ◽  
East West

Three studies examined cross-cultural differences in empathic accuracy (the ability to correctly infer another’s emotional experience) within the context of different relationships. East–West cultural differences in self-construal were hypothesized to differentiate levels of empathic accuracy across relationship types. In contrast to the independent self prevalent among members of Western cultures, members of Eastern cultures generally view the self as interdependent with those with whom they have a relationship. Easterners, relative to Westerners, are more concerned with the thoughts or feelings of close others and less concerned with the thoughts or feelings of those with whom they have no relational link (i.e., strangers). Across three studies, the authors found that East Asians, compared with European Americans, made more accurate inferences regarding the emotions of close others (i.e., friends), but less accurate inferences regarding the emotions of strangers. Furthermore, individual differences in interdependent self-construal among East Asians predicted the degree of empathic accuracy.

Neural Mechanism of Cultural Influences on the Self-construal

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuai YANG ◽  
Xi-Ting HUANG ◽  
Xiao-Gang WANG ◽  
Tian-Zi YIN
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Neural Mechanism ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Construal

Cross-Cultural Assessment of Situational Experience

2019 ◽  
pp. 218-229
Author(s):  
Gwendolyn Gardiner ◽  
Erica Baranski ◽  
Janina Larissa Buehler
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Affective Response ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Situational Cues ◽  
Cultural Assessment ◽  
Situational Experience

Cross-cultural psychology can benefit from the incorporation of psychological situations and the investigation of how cultural influences are manifested in our daily lives. In this chapter, we review the current literature on cross-cultural assessments of situations under the framework of cues (objective attributes of a situation), characteristics (meaning or interpretation of cues), and classes (groups of situations based on cues or characteristics). Cultural situational cues, such as the weather or population density, vary both in frequency and in interpretation across countries. Characteristics of situations differ in the meaning individuals ascribe to cues, the affective response to situations based on culture socialization, and the amount of agency or autonomy perceived in situations. Lastly, classes of situations (e.g., education settings, the workplace, romantic relationships), provide a useful method of grouping common situations for understanding cultural differences.

scholarly journals Cultural influence on innovativeness - links between “The Culture Map” and the “Global Innovation Index”

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Viola Isabel Nyssen Guillén ◽  
Carsten Deckert
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Multicultural Teams ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Global Innovation

AbstractIn the ongoing debate on the relation of cultural differences and national innovativeness this research aims to find out which of the seven cultural dimensions of The Culture Map (communicating, evaluating, leading, deciding, trusting, disagreeing, scheduling) have a significant influence on a nation’s ability and capacity to innovate. The findings show that cultural aspects as described by The Culture Map clearly influence the innovativeness of a nation. Based on these findings, tentative recommendations for fruitful monocultural and multicultural teams respectively are given.

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