Articles about Emotion

    I chose the article: Perception of Facial Expressions Differs Across Cultures. This article was basically about the new research published by the American Psychological Association which shows that different culture think about facial expression in different ways to certain degrees. It compared the East Asians and Western Caucasians through statistical image processing techniques and aimed to challenge the theory that facial expressions are innate with evolutionary origins. Fifteen Chinese people and Caucasians living in Glasgow attended the experiment. The study found out that Chinese people relied on the eyes while Caucasians relied on eyebrows and mouth. 


    I chose this article because I also observed that people from different cultures have different way of expression and these distinctions can lead to misunderstanding among these people from different cultures. I thought this article was most easy to understand and connect to because if you live abroad you can easily spot out that such expressions don't unite together for many different cultures.


    This article mentioned that some prior research supported the theory of evolution that "facial expressions are hard-wired human behavior with evolutionary origins, so facial expressions wouldn't differ across cultures".