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Emotional aperture across east and west : How culture shapes the perception of collective affect
Yang, Ying Hong, Ying-yi Sanchez-Burks, Jeffrey
Yang, Ying
Hong, Ying-yi
Sanchez-Burks, Jeffrey
Abstract
Quickly and accurately recognizing emotional cues in a collective, referred to as emotional aperture, has been posited to be important for navigating social contexts. This ability, therefore, may be particularly strong among those who live within culturally situated collectivist contexts. In this research, we examined evidence for this variability in recognizing collective emotions across cultures by comparing Chinese and Americans’ performance on an emotional aperture task. We found that Chinese were indeed more accurate in recognizing collective emotions as compared with Americans. This was mediated by cultural variability in global (vs. local) processing. We discuss how these findings contribute to our understanding of culture and collective emotion perception.
Keywords
emotional aperture, collective emotions, emotion recognition, culture, global processing, local processing
Date
2019
Type
Journal article
Journal
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Book
Volume
50
Issue
6
Page Range
751-762
Article Number
ACU Department
School of Behavioural and Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
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License
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