Elfenbein Hillary Anger, Ambady Nalini
Program in Organizational Behavior, Harvard University, USA.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2003 Aug;85(2):276-90. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.85.2.276.
Two studies provide evidence for the role of cultural familiarity in recognizing facial expressions of emotion. For Chinese located in China and the United States, Chinese Americans, and non-Asian Americans, accuracy and speed in judging Chinese and American emotions was greater with greater participant exposure to the group posing the expressions. Likewise, Tibetans residing in China and Africans residing in the United States were faster and more accurate when judging emotions expressed by host versus nonhost society members. These effects extended across generations of Chinese Americans, seemingly independent of ethnic or biological ties. Results suggest that the universal affect system governing emotional expression may be characterized by subtle differences in style across cultures, which become more familiar with greater cultural contact.
两项研究为文化熟悉度在识别情感面部表情中的作用提供了证据。对于身处中国和美国的中国人、华裔美国人以及非亚裔美国人而言，参与者对呈现表情的群体接触越多，判断中美表情时的准确性和速度就越高。同样，居住在中国的藏族人和居住在美国的非洲人在判断东道国与非东道国社会成员所表达的情感时，速度更快且更准确。这些影响在华裔美国人的几代人中都存在，似乎与种族或血缘关系无关。结果表明，支配情感表达的通用情感系统可能具有跨文化的细微风格差异，随着文化接触增多会变得更加熟悉。
