In the journal article When Familiarity Breeds Accuracy: Cultural Exposure and Facial Emotion Recognition by Hillary Anger Elfenbein and Nalini Ambady, they discuss an experiment where photographs of American and Chinese individuals showing different kind of facial expressions that outline their current state of emotion were presented to American and Chinese judges.
“… The photographs of American facial expression were judged more accurately and quickly than were the photographs of Chinese facial expressions. This is likely due to differences in the methods that the researchers used for creating these sets of stimulus materials. Whereas Ekman and Friesen (1976) created their American photographs with the goal of portraying intense versions of prototypical facial expressions that would be highly recognizable, by contrast Wang and Markham (1999) created their Chinese photographs with the goal of eliciting situationally appropriate facial expressions that would be relatively natural. These differences in the method of posing the facial expressions likely led to American expressions that were more intense but less authentic than the Chinese expressions…. These factors likely contributed to the main effects in our study, in which American photographs were generally better recognized than the Chinese photographs” (Elfenbein & Ambady, 2003)
Photographs of facial expressions by Chinese people were presented to Chinese judges and photographs of facial expressions by American people were presented to American judges. The result was that American judges had an higher rate in recognizing emotions through facial expressions than Chinese judges. This could track back to the cultural background of each group and how it affected their behavior...
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...ng that a sort of hierarchy within countries exist, and somehow they happen to sit on top of that vigorous pyramid.
The third and probably most well known quality of the American culture is the influence that the population derives from the media. The USA has the most extensive and diverse set of outlets that supply the people with a sheer number of different kinds of entertainment. This creation of melodramatic amusement has created a sort of illusion within some of those who spend more time in front of the television than others. Although to be fair, even though this trend might have started in the USA, any country with decent and above satellite and Internet coverage has that separated pool of individuals that are extremely influenced by entertainment and played-out fiction stories that has them detached from reality and alienated from the rest of the community.
The Americanization of Australian Television is a sad and terrible thing. It is a process whereby ordinary Australians are bombarded every day with images of American lifestyle, so much that it merges almost unnoticed into their own lifestyle. It is a process whereby our home-grown entertainment industry is overwhelmed by the enormous powerhouse of the American economy, with drastic effects upon the modern Australian nation. Not only is Australian free to air TV being dominated by American produced shows, but a lot of the content on the Australian TV shows is sourced from America. American culture is part of Australian mass consumer culture, It dominates our television.
I tend to see things differently than anyone else. I do not think entertainment media does shape American culture and values; I think American culture and values shape entertainment media. The events we live through on a daily basis; war, poverty, homelessness, crime, sacrifice, random acts of kindness, these are the things that shape the American culture. Our values begin at home, things our parents, churches, and society instill in us. As we go out on our own, sometimes those values can change because we learn that life is not black and white, it also comes in many shades of
While communicating with another human being, one only has to examine the other’s face in order to comprehend what is being said on a much deeper level. It is said that up to 55 percent of a message’s meaning can be derived from facial expression (Subramani, 2010). These facial manipulations allow thoughts to be expressed in ways that are often difficult to articulate verbally, with the face demonstrating “the thoughts of the mind, and the feelings of the heart” (Singla). Many expressions are said to universal, particularly those showing happiness, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, and...
their culture. Television over the years has molded the minds of its viewers – young and
After the three dependant variables (facial movement time, expression variability, and expression lability) were analyzed, the researchers found that Chinese infants were the least expressive when compared to Europe...
Charles Darwin put forth a point in the 1870 that emotions came into their form because they have modifying features. For instance, disgust emerged because the individual by responding in different ways to this emotion increased his survival rate. The expressions of individuals face are in born, the individual soon identifies the expressions on one’s face to judge whether other person is happy to meet him or not. The different theo...
Pop culture in the 1950s and 1960s began to spread and infest the nation from front to back through radio shows, books and magazines, television programs, and even motion pictures. Whether it is culture in terms of political affairs, clothing or the latest musical sensations, the United States has always played the dominant role when it came to who knows what is best, first. Some cases of Americanizati...
American media nonetheless is most definitely the most dominating part of americanization. I think it’s clear to say that mostly everyone knows Hollywood and the how outstanding
The well-known (*VIP #7) psychologist was born in Washington D.C. in 1934 (Good Therapy). After graduating high school, Ekman continued his education at the University of Chicago and New York University (Good Therapy). In 1958, he graduated from Adelphi University with a PhD in clinical psychology (Good Therapy). Ekman’s research of hand movements and gestures began in the late 1950’s, but in 1965, he became interested in facial expression and emotion (Paul Ekman LLC). Paul Ekman would travel around the world studying people of different races, examining their ethnicities, and observing their nonverbal behavior (*VIP #1). After collecting data and researching his topic, he concluded that facial expressions are universal similar to what Charles Darwin had proclaimed (Paul Ekman LLC). Later on, he would work with Wallace Friesen to develop the only tool for objectively measuring facial movement: Facial Action Coding System (FACS) (Paul Ekman LLC). Continuing his research, in 1967, he started to study deception and through his studies,...
One of the greatest exports of American culture is American media. American media is one of the most widely distributed and consumed cultural forms from the United States. This means that not only do Americans consume large quantities of their own media, but many other countries in the world consume American media, too. People in other countries will not interpret or understand the media in precisely the same ways that Americans will and do, nonetheless, many aspects of American culture and American reality are communicated to numerous viewers as part of the content in the media. The media is an important tool in the discussion of race, class, and gender in America. It takes a savvy viewer to discriminate between and understand what media accurately represents reality, what media does not, or which aspects of experience are fictionalized, and which elements ...
The significance of the face in Japanese culture is important to considerations of Japanese film and film actors. Tellingly, an entire article about Takeshi Kita...
...t functions in our everyday life and relationships. Our culture is a good determinant of how we may act and show our feelings around people. The social conventions in our culture also serves as a guide as to what is supposed to be proper behavior when we are playing our social roles in the society we live in. There are times when people would choose to present artificial emotions because of the anxious situations that they are dealing with, hence refusing to disclose their feelings to others. A person’s personality also has huge influence on how they understand and convey expressions; just as our personality shapes our emotions, in turn our emotions also affect our personality. The people that we often socialize with can influence our feelings as we do the same with them. As has been noted, these are all the factors that influence the expression of our emotions.
...hat facial expressions can happen from pure emotion and spontaneity, such as the student packing up to leave the library, smiling at nothing because they have finished their task and can leave happily. Then on the other hand they can occur because of interaction and social status, such as the student studying with others and having motor mimicry of the smiling and actions of the other students. The first supports the expression view and the latter supports the ecology view.
The face communicates emotions and how intensely they are felt. This can be used to manage expression, give feedback, and can vary by culture. An example of management, would be to give a blank expression in order to hide what you are feeling. An example of facial communication varying by culture is an Italian looking very angry when displeased but a Chinese person could be much more expressionless about
Asymmetry also plays a role in the differentiation of real and fake emotional expressions of the face. Ekman (1980) found that when an emotion was being falsified, that one side of the face, particularly the left, would detail a stronger intensity than on the right.