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SUBMITTER: Gendron M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4752367 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gendron Maria M Roberson Debi D van der Vyver Jacoba Marietta JM Barrett Lisa Feldman LF
Emotion (Washington, D.C.) 20140401 2
It is widely believed that certain emotions are universally recognized in facial expressions. Recent evidence indicates that Western perceptions (e.g., scowls as anger) depend on cues to U.S. emotion concepts embedded in experiments. Because such cues are standard features in methods used in cross-cultural experiments, we hypothesized that evidence of universality depends on this conceptual context. In our study, participants from the United States and the Himba ethnic group from the Keunene reg ...[more]