PSYCH 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter VI: Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Nonverbal Communication
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I can see it all over your face!, pp. This article details paul ekman"s early research, which was designed to demonstrate the universality of these expressions. The individuals selected to participate in the study had seen no movies, did not speak. English or pidgin, had never worked for a westerner, and had never lived in any of the. The participant could then simply point to the expression that best matched the story. No significant differences in ability to correctly identify the emotions in the photographs were found among any of the groups. All the differences were statistically significant except when participants were asked to distinguish fear from surprise. In this situation, many errors were made, and, for one group, surprise was actually selected 67% of the time when the story described fear. No significant differences between the westernized and non-westernized adults were found on the number who chose the correct photographs. No differences were found between younger and older children.
