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Cross-cultural emotion recognition and evaluation of Radboud faces database with an Indian sample.

ABSTRACT: Emotional databases are important tools to study emotion recognition and their effects on various cognitive processes. Since, well-standardized large-scale emotional expression database is not available in India, we evaluated Radboud faces database (RaFD)-a freely available database of emotional facial expressions of adult Caucasian models, for Indian sample. Using the pictures from RaFD, we investigated the similarity and differences in self-reported ratings on emotion recognition accuracy as well as parameters of valence, clarity, genuineness, intensity and arousal of emotional expression, by following the same rating procedure as used for the validation of RaFD. We also systematically evaluated the universality hypothesis of emotion perception by analyzing differences in accuracy and ratings for different emotional parameters across Indian and Dutch participants. As the original Radboud database lacked arousal rating, we added this as a emotional parameter along with all other parameters. The results show that the overall accuracy of emotional expression recognition by Indian participants was high and very similar to the ratings from Dutch participants. However, there were significant cross-cultural differences in classification of emotion categories and their corresponding parameters. Indians rated certain expressions comparatively more genuine, higher in valence, and less intense in comparison to original Radboud ratings. The misclassifications/ confusion for specific emotional categories differed across the two cultures indicating subtle but significant differences between the cultures. In addition to understanding the nature of facial emotion recognition, this study also evaluates and enables the use of RaFD within Indian population.

SUBMITTER: Mishra MV

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6166925 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Cross-cultural emotion recognition and evaluation of Radboud faces database with an Indian sample.

Mishra Maruti Vijayshankar MV Ray Sonia Baloni SB Srinivasan Narayanan N

PloS one 20181001 10

Emotional databases are important tools to study emotion recognition and their effects on various cognitive processes. Since, well-standardized large-scale emotional expression database is not available in India, we evaluated Radboud faces database (RaFD)-a freely available database of emotional facial expressions of adult Caucasian models, for Indian sample. Using the pictures from RaFD, we investigated the similarity and differences in self-reported ratings on emotion recognition accuracy as w ...[more]

PMID: 30273355

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Cross-cultural emotion recognition and evaluation of Radboud faces database with an Indian sample.

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Cross-cultural emotion recognition and evaluation of Radboud faces database with an Indian sample.

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