yuki's study

Question 1

aim

Answer 1

-investigate if culture affects how facial cues are used when understanding other people’s emotions

Question 2

study design

Question 3

method

Answer 3

• showed participants emotions with six different six different combinations of eyes and mouths
• eyes and mouths were either happy, sad or neutral
• they were then asked how happy the face was

Question 4

results

Answer 4

• japanese had higher ratings for faces with happy eyes and lowest ratings with faces with sad eyes
• americans had higher ratings for faces with happy mouths
• JAPANESE FOCUSED MORE ON EYES RATHER THAN MOUTHS, this suggests a difference in their understanding of facial expressions

Question 5

conclusion

Answer 5

-people learn their own cultural norms on expression and interpretation of emotions

Question 6

strengths and weaknesses

Answer 6

strengths
-provides support that NVC is learned to some extent
-when yuki used photos of real people instead, results were still the same
weaknesses
-USED EMOTICONS INSTEAD OF PEOPLE, lacks ecological validity
-participants were aware they were taking part, demand characteristics
-sample was limited, consisted of only students, can’t be generalised to other ages
-only looked at basic emotions of happiness and sadness, findings cannot be generalised to other facial expressions and other emotions