Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University.
Department of Food Science and Business, Miyagi University.
Emotion. 2023 Sep;23(6):1648-1657. doi: 10.1037/emo0001181. Epub 2022 Nov 10.
In the wake of the global pandemic, interacting with others while wearing masks has emerged as a global challenge. A growing body of literature has reported that face masks hinder emotion recognition in Western populations. Given that diagnostic facial features for recognizing specific emotions (e.g., happiness) differ between Western and Eastern cultures, there may be cultural differences in the effects of face masks on emotion recognition. Relying on the previous findings showing cultural differences in emotion recognition, we conducted a preregistered study where 203 American and 209 Japanese participants judged the emotional expressions of faces (happy, fearful, angry, sad, disgust, and neutral) with and without masks. The results showed cultural differences in emotion recognition of faces with and without masks. Specifically, face masks decreased the accuracy of happy emotion recognition in the Americans but not in the Japanese. The results suggest that the effect of wearing masks on emotion recognition depends on the types of emotions and culture and supports previous findings indicating cultural differences in the decoding strategy for facial expressions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
在全球大流行之后，戴口罩与他人互动已成为全球性挑战。越来越多的文献报道称，口罩会阻碍西方人群的情绪识别。鉴于用于识别特定情绪（例如，快乐）的诊断面部特征在西方和东方文化之间存在差异，因此口罩对面部识别的影响可能存在文化差异。基于先前的研究结果表明，在情绪识别方面存在文化差异，我们进行了一项预先注册的研究，其中 203 名美国人和 209 名日本人在有和没有口罩的情况下判断面部（快乐、恐惧、愤怒、悲伤、厌恶和中性）的情绪表达。结果表明，在有和没有口罩的情况下，对人脸的情绪识别存在文化差异。具体而言，口罩会降低美国人对快乐情绪识别的准确性，但不会降低日本人对快乐情绪识别的准确性。结果表明，戴口罩对面部识别的影响取决于情绪类型和文化，这支持了先前的研究结果，即表明面部表情解码策略存在文化差异。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2023 APA，保留所有权利）。
