Are you looking at me? The influence of facial orientation and cultural focus salience on the perception of emotion expressions

摘要: AbstractWe examined the influence of cultural orientation salience on emotion perception process in a contextualized recognition task. We primed individual and collective focus participants who later rated expressions central character (target) showing happy, sad, angry, or neutral facial expression group setting. Facial four other persons towards target person was manipulated so that they faced either “inwards,” character, “outwards,” observer. Priming collectivistic mind-set resulted more intense emotions “inwards” condition when showed expressions. Individualist influenced “outwards” few cases. The findings highlight significance perceivers’ social elements situation for line with “culture ...