Cultural Confusions Show that Facial Expressions Are Not Universal
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Cultural Confusions Show that Facial Expressions Are Not Universal
Central to all human interaction is the mutual understanding of emotions, achieved primarily by a set of biologically rooted social signals evolved for this purpose-facial expressions of emotion. Although facial expressions are widely considered to be the universal language of emotion, some negative facial expressions consistently elicit lower recognition levels among Eastern compared to Wester...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.051