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Emotion Perception Rules Abide by Cultural Display Rules: Koreans and Americans Weigh Outward Emotion Expressions (Emoticons) Differently
The current study compared emotion perception in two cultures where display rules for emotion expression deviate. In Experiment 1, participants from America and Korea played a repeated prisoner's dilemma game with a counterpart, who was, in actuality, a programmed defector. Emotion expressions...
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Published in: | Experimental psychology 2022-03, Vol.69 (2), p.83-103 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | The current study compared emotion perception in two
cultures where display rules for emotion expression deviate. In Experiment 1,
participants from America and Korea played a repeated prisoner's dilemma
game with a counterpart, who was, in actuality, a programmed
defector. Emotion expressions were exchanged via emoticons
at the end of every round. After winning more points by defecting, the
counterpart sent either a matching emoticon (a joyful face) or
a mismatching emoticon (a regretful face). The results showed
that Americans in the matching condition were more likely to defect, or to
punish, compared to those in the mismatching condition,
suggesting that more weight was given to their counterpart's
joyful expression. This difference was smaller for Koreans,
suggesting a higher disregard for the outward expression. In a second,
supplementary experiment, we found that Korean participants were more likely to
cooperate in the mismatching or regretful condition, when they
thought their counterpart was a Westerner. Overall, our data suggest that
emotion perception rules abide by the display rules of one's culture but
are also influenced by the counterpart's culture. |
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ISSN: | 1618-3169 2190-5142 |
DOI: | 10.1027/1618-3169/a000550 |