PSYC 191 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fore People, Objective Test, Secret Service

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 191
• Professor: Stephen Lindsay

Document Summary

I can see it all over your face. Constants across cultures in the face and emotion. Journal of personality and social psychology, 17, 124%129. A person"s emotional state can be discerned from their facial expression. Ekman and friesen had shown photographs of faces to people in asia, south. All were able to identify the same facial expressions. However, expressions weren"t concluded to be universal because of media exposure in these groups. Objective = test a culture that had not been exposed to the media. Hypothesis = group not exposed to media would still be able to identify these expressions. Traveled to new guinea to study the fore people (stone age society without external exposure) Participants were told a short story and then asked to select which of three photos represented the matching expression. Particular facial behaviors are universally associated with particular emotions.