Recognizing spontaneous facial expressions of emotion in a small-scale society of Papua New Guinea

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ID5835233
AutoresCarlos Crivelli (0000-0002-6413-2905, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), James A Russell (0000-0003-1041-3717, Boston College), Sergio Jarillo (0000-0001-6533-5694, American Museum of Natural History), Jose-Miguel Fernández-Dols (0000-0002-9755-4338, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Ano2016
Volume17
Fascículo2
Páginas337-347
Data de publicação2016-10-13
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEmotion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1528-3542 • E-ISSN: 1931-1516
EditoraAmerican Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1037/emo0000236
PMID27736108
OpenAlexW2530372971
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas27

We report 2 studies on how residents of Papua New Guinea interpret facial expressions produced spontaneously by other residents of Papua New Guinea. Members of a small-scale indigenous society, Trobrianders (Milne Bay Province; N = 32, 14 to 17 years) were shown 5 facial expressions spontaneously produced by members of another small-scale indigenous society, Fore (Eastern Highlands Province) that Ekman had photographed, labeled, and published in The Face of Man (1980), each as an expression of a basic emotion: happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, and disgust. Trobrianders were asked to use any word they wanted to describe how each person shown felt and to provide valence and arousal ratings. Other Trobrianders (N = 24, 12 to 14 years) were shown the same photographs but asked to choose their response from a short list. In both studies, agreement with Ekman's predicted labels was low: 0% to 16% and 13% to 38% of observers, respectively. (PsycINFO Database Record

Disgust · New guinea · PsycINFO · Sadness · Surprise · Categorization, perception, and language · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Face Recognition and Perception