PSY331H1 Chapter Notes -Emotion Recognition, Display Rules, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Towards a dialect theory: cultural differences in the expression and. In-group advantage has more to do with culture than ethnicity: display rules are management techniques that allow individuals to decouple their expressions from their feelings. Display rules vary across culture: decoding rules are management techniques that allow individuals to decouple the acknowledged perception of emption from their sincere judgement. Study 1: hypothesis: there are differences in the facial activation used to portray emotional expression across cultural groups, hypothesis: differences in facial activation will emerge for anger, contempt, shame, embarrassment, happiness, sadness, and serenity. By contrast, differences are not expected for disgust, fear, and surprise: asked to pose emotional expressions. Each participant posed for 10 emotions: anger, disgust, happiness, embarrassment, feat, sadness, serenity, shame, and surprise. Results: hypothesis that emotions have dialects that are discernable in differences in facial action units for the same emotion. Seems to be true: hypothesis that evidence for cultural differences would vary across emotional states.
