Cultural Differences in Facial Expressiveness

Because every action happens under the level of consciousness, even if it is silent, it can reveal information about itself. However, there is no doubt as to how well the disclosed information matches the information received. Even if nonverbal communication is proposed, the sender can be confident that his information is properly communicated to the recipient. Given the cross-cultural differences, this is very suspicious. However, according to Charles Darwin (1872/1998), with respect to facial expressions, "[...] the same way of thinking is very unified throughout the world" is not. formula

Culture also affects individuals 'understanding of others' expressions. In the experiment at the University of Glasgow, the understanding of different basic emotions, the expression signals of so-called "words of universal emotions" - happiness, surprise, fear, hatred, anger, sorrow - is showing. In high context culture, expressions and gestures are very important in understanding information and recipients may need more cultural background to understand "basic" performance of emotions Hmm.

The problem is the difference between facial expressions and emotions? On the other hand, facial expression involves a change in the individual's face based on different muscles. As mentioned earlier, emotion is a complex mental state involving three different elements. Subjective experience, physiological response and behavior or expression response. Therefore, the facial expression is regarded as an emotional expression response. This relationship between expression and emotion depends greatly on the assumption of universality. This hypothesis states that a particular facial expression is a signal of six basic emotional states (happiness, sorrow, anger, fear, surprise, hatred) recognized by people all over the world regardless of culture or language I suppose. The authenticity of this hypothesis is one of the longest arguments in biological science and social science. An example of this is Jack's disclaimer.

The universality hypothesis focuses on the ability of people to recognize naturally occurring spontaneous facial expressions. However, a facial expression used to test this hypothesis was proposed. Studies on spontaneous facial expressions are rarely conducted, and it has been found that participant's facial expression recognition is lower than the corresponding facial expressions. In most studies participants showed multiple facial expressions (Ekman proposed six with each facial expression). However, people have judged facial expressions compared with other people they see, and the recognition rate of participants who judged multiple facial expressions is higher than that of only one facial expression.