Facial Expressions of Emotion Still Culturally Universal

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By Neuroskeptic
Apr 20, 2012 2:43 AMNov 5, 2019 12:14 AM

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Do people from different cultures express emotions differently?

A new paper says yes: Facial expressions of emotion are not culturally universal. But as far as I can see the data show that at least some of them very much are universal.

First some background. The authors, Rachael Jack and colleagues of Glasgow, have published before on this theme. Back in 2009 I blogged about one of their previous papers, which showed that East Asians were less accurate than Westerners at categorizing certain emotions.

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