Do surrounding figures' emotions affect judgment of tl target figure's emotion? Comparing the eye-movemenl patterns of European Canadians, Asian Canadians, Asian international students, and Japanese

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEPTEMBER, 2012, Pages

  Masuda, Takahiko ^a   Wang, Huaitang ^a   Ishii, Keiko ^b   Ito, Kenichi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asian Canadians; Asian international students; Cognition; Culture; Emotion; European Canadians; Japanese; The affective context effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ASIAN CANADIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN CANADIAN; EXPERIENCE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; MALE; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PERCEPTION;

EID: 84898574277     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00072     Document Type: Article

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