Emotion Recognition Across Cultures: The Influence of Ethnicity on Empathic Accuracy and Physiological Linkage

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 874-884

  Soto, José Angel ^a   Levenson, Robert W ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cultural advantage; empathic accuracy; empathy; physiological linkage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; RATING SCALE; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEOTAPE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; PULSE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72449171071     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017399     Document Type: Article

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