Perception of emotion is culture-specific

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 13:28 in Psychology & Sociology

Want to know how a Japanese person is feeling? Pay attention to the tone of his voice, not his face. That's what other Japanese people would do, anyway. A new study examines how Dutch and Japanese people assess others' emotions and finds that Dutch people pay attention to the facial expression more than Japanese people do...

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