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Cross-cultural comparison; facial inference; nonverbal communication; Pakistan; Mechanical Turk
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A Cultural Comparison Of Two Facial Inference Studies, Janine Swiney
A Cultural Comparison Of Two Facial Inference Studies, Janine Swiney
Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
Two different samples from Pakistan and the United States were asked to infer the emotions and personality traits shown in three facial expressions (angry, sad, happy) of young white females and males in six photographs. The two studies used Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to investigate the facial inference process. Each picture was presented for 10 seconds followed by four questions about the individual in the picture. The first question asked participants to identify the emotion shown, from a list of six emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise). The next three questions consist of condensed sets of the Big Five …