Cultural Relativity in Perceiving Emotion From Vocalizations

Psychological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 911-920

  Gendron, Maria ^a   Roberson, Debi ^b   van der Vyver, Jacoba Marieta ^c   Barrett, Lisa Feldman ^a,d  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAMIBIA   (Namibia)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

affect; cross cultural differences; emotions; vocalizations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; CRYING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAUGHTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAMIBIA; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CRYING; CUES; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAMIBIA; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898841287     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797613517239     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Bachorowski J. A.Vocal expression and perception of emotion.Current Directions in Psychological Science. 1999;8:53-57.
2. Barrett L. F.Was Darwin wrong about emotional expressions?.Current Directions in Psychological Science. 2011;20:400-406.
3. Barrett L. F.,Mesquita B.,Gendron M.Context in emotion perception.Current Directions in Psychological Science. 2011;20:286-290.
4. Boucher J. D.,Carlson G. E.Recognition of facial expressions in three cultures.Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 1980;11:263-280.
5. Buck R.The communication of emotion. New York, NY: Guilford Press; 1984:.
6. Ekman P.Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1971. Cole J., ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press; 1972:207-283.
7. Ekman P.,Rosenberg E. L.What the face reveals: Basic and applied studies of spontaneous expression using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 1997:.
8. Elfenbein H. A.Nonverbal dialects and accents in facial expressions of emotion.Emotion Review. 2013;5:90-96.
9. Elfenbein H. A.,Ambady N.On the universality and cultural specificity of emotion recognition: A meta-analysis.Psychological Bulletin. 2002;128:203-235.
10. Gendron M.,Lindquist K. A.,Barsalou L.,Barrett L. F.Emotion words shape emotion percepts.Emotion. 2012;12:314-325.
11. Gendron M.,Roberson D.,van der Vyver M. J.,Barrett L. F.Perceptions of emotion from facial expressions are not culturally universal: Evidence from a remote culture.Emotion. in press;:.
12. Hawk S. T.,van Kleef G. A.,Fischer A. H.,van der Schalk J."Worth a thousand words": Absolute and relative decoding of nonlinguistic affect vocalizations.Emotion. 2009;9:293-305.
13. Hoehl S.,Striano T.Discrete emotions in infancy: Perception without production?.Emotion Review. 2010;2:132-133.
14. Izard C. E.Innate and universal facial expressions: Evidence from developmental and cross-cultural research.Psychological Bulletin. 1994;115:288-299.
15. Jack R. E.,Garrod O. G. B.,Yu H.,Caldara R.,Schyns P. G.Facial expressions of emotion are not culturally universal.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 2012;109:7241-7244.
16. Kozak M. N.,Marsh A. A.,Wegner D. M.What do I think you're doing? Action identification and mind attribution.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 2006;90:543-555.
17. Lindquist K. A.,Barrett L. F.,Bliss-Moreau E.,Russell J. A.Language and the perception of emotion.Emotion. 2006;6:125-138.
18. Marsh A. A.,Elfenbein H. A.,Ambady N.Nonverbal "accents": Cultural differences in facial expressions of emotion.Psychological Science. 2003;14:373-376.
19. Matsumoto D.Cultural influences on the perception of emotion.Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 1989;20:92-105.
20. Naab P. J.,Russell J. A.Judgments of emotion from spontaneous facial expressions of New Guineans.Emotion. 2007;7:736-744.
21. Nelson N. L.,Russell J. A.Universality revisited.Emotion Review. 2013;5:8-15.
22. Norenzayan A.,Heine S. J.Psychological universals: What are they and how can we know?.Psychological Bulletin. 2005;131:763-784.
23. Owren M. J.,Amoss R. T.,Rendall D.Two organizing principles of vocal production: Implications for nonhuman and human primates.American Journal of Primatology. 2011;73:530-544.
24. Russell J. A.The preschooler's understanding of the causes and consequences of emotion.Child Development. 1990;61:1872-1881.
25. Russell J. A.Culture and the categorization of emotions.Psychological Bulletin. 1991;110:426-450.
26. Russell J. A.Is there universal recognition of emotion from facial expression? A review of the cross-cultural studies.Psychological Bulletin. 1994;115:102-141.
27. Russell J. A.,Bachorowski J. A.,Fernandez-Dols J. M.Facial and vocal expressions of emotion.Annual Review of Psychology. 2003;54:329-349.
28. Russell J. A.,Barrett L. F.Core affect, prototypical emotional episodes, and other things called emotion: Dissecting the elephant.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 1999;76:805-819.
29. Sauter D. A.,Eisner F.,Ekman P.,Scott S. K.Cross-cultural recognition of basic emotions through nonverbal emotional vocalizations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 2010;107:2408-2412.
30. Scherer K. R.Emotions: Essays on emotion theory. van Goozen S. H. M.Van de Poll N. E.Sergeant J. A., ed. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum; 1994:161-196.
31. Scherer K. R.Vocal communication of emotion: A review of research paradigms.Speech Communication. 2003;40:227-256.
32. Scherer K. R.,Johnstone T.,Klasmeyer G.Handbook of affective sciences. Davidson R. J.Scherer K. R.Goldsmith H. H., ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 2003:433-456.
33. Schimmack U.Cultural influences on the recognition of emotion by facial expressions: Individualistic or Caucasian cultures?.Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 1996;27:37-50.
34. Simon-Thomas E. R.,Keltner D. J.,Sauter D.,Sinicropi-Yao L.,Abramson A.The voice conveys specific emotions: Evidence from vocal burst displays.Emotion. 2009;9:838-846.
35. Spunt R. P.,Lieberman M. D.An integrative model of the neural systems supporting the comprehension of observed emotional behavior.NeuroImage. 2012;59:3050-3059.
36. Tracy J. L.,Randles D.Four models of basic emotions: A review of Ekman and Cordaro, Izard, Levenson, and Panksepp and Watt.Emotion Review. 2011;3:397-405.
37. Vallacher R. R.,Wegner D. M.What do people think they're doing? Action identification and human behavior.Psychological Review. 1987;94:3-15.
38. Widen S. C.,Christy A. M.,Hewett K.,Russell J. A.Do proposed facial expressions of contempt, shame, embarrassment, and compassion communicate the predicted emotion?.Cognition & Emotion. 2011;25:898-906.
39. Wierzbicka A.Emotions across languages and cultures: Diversity and universals. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press; 1999:.