East-West cultural differences in context-sensitivity are evident in early childhood

Commentary: Cultural differences in on-line sensitivity to emotional voices: comparing East and West

On the basis of their visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) results, Liu et al. (2015) claim that processing of facial emotions is different between Chinese (and more generally “Eastern”) and Canadian (and more generally “Western”) people. Simply put, Eastern people are more sensitive to non-visual aspects of the environment, e.g., to the emotional tone of speech presented in the background of phot...

Cultural differences in on-line sensitivity to emotional voices: comparing East and West

Evidence that culture modulates on-line neural responses to the emotional meanings encoded by vocal and facial expressions was demonstrated recently in a study comparing English North Americans and Chinese (Liu et al., 2015). Here, we compared how individuals from these two cultures passively respond to emotional cues from faces and voices using an Oddball task. Participants viewed in-group emo...

Cultural differences in emotion: differences in emotional arousal level between the East and the West

Whether emotion is universal or social is a recurrent issue in the history of emotion study among psychologists. Some researchers view emotion as a universal construct, and that a large part of emotional experience is biologically based. However, emotion is not only biologically determined, but is also influenced by the environment. Therefore, cultural differences exist in some aspects of emoti...

Cultural Differences in Moral Judgment Competence? a Study of West and East European University Students

Cultural differences in the development of cognitive shifting: East-West comparison.

Prior research has documented that Japanese children's performance on the Dimensional Change Card Sorting (DCCS) task can be influenced by their observation of another person completing the task, which is referred to as social transmission of disinhibition. The current study explored whether Canadian children would also show a social transmission of disinhibition and whether their performance w...