Affective Information in Context and Judgment of Facial Expression: Cultural Similarities and Variations in Context Effects Between North Americans and East Asians

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 429-445

  Ito, Kenichi ^a   Masuda, Takahiko ^a   Hioki, Koichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

contextual influence; cross cultural comparison; cultural similarity; European Canadian; facial expressions; Japanese

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858163276     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022110395139     Document Type: Article

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