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Reading Your Face: Do I Know Enough To Interpret How You Feel?, Youlim Kim

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

The present study examined how individuals’ self-construal impacted their recognition accuracy and confidence in interpretation. Previous findings suggest that individuals with independent self-construal perceive the individual as a causal agent of emotion; however, individuals with interdependent self-construal believe that emotional expression is used to communicate with others. Hence, interdependent people perceive the situation as a causal agent of emotion expression. The present study assessed if self-construal influences people’s needs for contextual information when making emotional judgments. Participants (N = 242) were randomly assigned to either an independence-primed or interdependence-primed condition. Within the priming condition, participants additionally looked at 4 pictures …