Witkower Zachary, Hill Alexander K, Koster Jeremy, Tracy Jessica L
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6K 1Z4 Canada.
University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA.
Affect Sci. 2021 Sep 3;2(3):221-229. doi: 10.1007/s42761-021-00052-y. eCollection 2021 Sep.
Research on emotion communication typically focuses on facial expressions, yet scientists dating back to Darwin have noted the importance of the body in conveying emotions. In fact, studies have found that the body is reliably used to express and recognize anger, fear, and sadness, by individuals in several industrialized populations. Here, we provide the first evidence that bodily expressions of these three emotions are reliably recognized by members of an isolated small-scale traditional society: the Mayangna of Nicaragua. Specifically, we found that recognition rates for sadness and anger bodily expressions were high, and recognition rates for a fear bodily expression were lower but still significantly greater than chance. Given that the Mayangna are unlikely to have learned these bodily expressions through cross-cultural transmission, their ability to recognize these displays provides strong evidence for the universality of each expression.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-021-00052-y.
关于情感交流的研究通常聚焦于面部表情,然而,自达尔文时代起,科学家们就已指出身体在传达情感方面的重要性。事实上,研究发现,在几个工业化国家的人群中,人们能够可靠地通过身体来表达和识别愤怒、恐惧和悲伤。在此,我们提供了首个证据,证明一个与世隔绝的小规模传统社会——尼加拉瓜的马亚纳人,能够可靠地识别这三种情感的身体表达。具体而言,我们发现悲伤和愤怒身体表达的识别率很高,恐惧身体表达的识别率较低,但仍显著高于随机水平。鉴于马亚纳人不太可能通过跨文化传播习得这些身体表达,他们识别这些表达的能力为每种表达的普遍性提供了有力证据。
在线版本包含可在10.1007/s42761-021-00052-y获取的补充材料。