PSY321H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Collectivism
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Ekman and friesen (1971: success rates higher than chance across all 5 cultures, all individuals recognize emotions depicted in photographs, these 6 emotions are universal in same ways. No differences may be due to universality or the research design has low power (not enough power to detect a difference that does exist: all these cultures were industrialized, literate, and modern. They shared mass media: emotions may not be universal but these cultures may be so similar that the study didn"t have enough power to determine differences. 3rd study: took pictures of fore facial expressions and brought them to us and asked participants which emotion is being depicted by each photograph: americans determined emotions accurately. Show there is a high degree of similarity between how emotions are expressed and recognized. Each emotion (of the 6) is associated with a distinct facial. Universal in other ways as well: physiological responses, emotional experience. Same subjective feeling: coherence among emotion response systems.
