Facial expressions of emotion are not culturally universal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 7241-7244

  Jack, Rachael E ^a   Garrod, Oliver G B ^a   Yu, Hui ^a   Caldara, Roberto ^b   Schyns, Philippe G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Categorical perception; Cultural specificity; Modeling; Reverse correlation; Top down processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; EVOLUTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SADISM; SOCIAL NETWORK; VISION;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860817099     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200155109     Document Type: Article

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