PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Cardiovascular Disease, Blood Pressure
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In a study one group was instructed to hold a pen between their teeth without having it touch their lips. A second group was instructed to hold a pen between their lips without having it touch their teeth. Then participants were asked to rate how amused they were with a number of cartoons. Quite remarkably, the pen-in-teeth group found the cartoons to be more amusing than the pen-in-lips group! Apparently, participants were inferring how amused they were by the cartoons by considering what their facial muscles were doing, although none of them appeared to be aware that they were doing so. The facial feedback hypothesis suggests that culturally divergent display rules might affect more than just people"s expressions of their emotions. The japanese were about three times as likely as americans to report that they had not been feeling any emotions. Other research has found that east asians are less attentive to their visceral states when compared with westerners.
