Friends with Emotions: Cross-cultural and friendship habit differences in the recognition of facial emotions between two individualistic cultures
(2020) PSYP01 20201Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- Cultural differences in emotion recognition have been found numerous times in the literature, especially when emotions are presented in social context (Masuda, 2017). However, we need to find a socioecological difference that explains such differences as current theoretical viewpoints fail to explain why these differences only arise later in life. This study aims to see if friendship habits, how we socialise, may be the factor that leads to these emotion differences. Three studies were conducted. The first (N = 49) and second (N = 324) attempted to validate the Friendship Habits Questionnaire (FHQ) which was created to measure friendship habits. The third study (N = 433) continued validation and used the FHQ while comparing Brits (N = 158)... (More)
- Cultural differences in emotion recognition have been found numerous times in the literature, especially when emotions are presented in social context (Masuda, 2017). However, we need to find a socioecological difference that explains such differences as current theoretical viewpoints fail to explain why these differences only arise later in life. This study aims to see if friendship habits, how we socialise, may be the factor that leads to these emotion differences. Three studies were conducted. The first (N = 49) and second (N = 324) attempted to validate the Friendship Habits Questionnaire (FHQ) which was created to measure friendship habits. The third study (N = 433) continued validation and used the FHQ while comparing Brits (N = 158) and Swedes (N = 169) in emotion recognition. The FHQ was found to have an acceptable fit in our first and second studies, with components being explained by theory. Results of the third study suggested that the traits of anger, extraversion, competitiveness and group identification could be predicted by various elements of friendship habits. Furthermore, British people seem to be more affected by social context when rating emotions than Swedish people as was found in 10 out of 12 of our analyses. Friendship habits were found to have significant but very small effects on emotions in social contexts. More needs to be done to improve our measurement of friendship habits before abandoning the theory completely. The results raise the need to question our theoretical understanding of individualistic and collectivist cultures. It has also implications for immigration. Future studies should make use of eye-tracking and EEG. (Less)
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- author
- Howlett, Philip LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- PSYP01 20201
- year
- 2020
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Emotion recognition, emotion perception, culture, cultural differences, individualism, social context.
- language
- English
- id
- 9018532
- date added to LUP
- 2020-06-18 09:22:38
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abstract = {{Cultural differences in emotion recognition have been found numerous times in the literature, especially when emotions are presented in social context (Masuda, 2017). However, we need to find a socioecological difference that explains such differences as current theoretical viewpoints fail to explain why these differences only arise later in life. This study aims to see if friendship habits, how we socialise, may be the factor that leads to these emotion differences. Three studies were conducted. The first (N = 49) and second (N = 324) attempted to validate the Friendship Habits Questionnaire (FHQ) which was created to measure friendship habits. The third study (N = 433) continued validation and used the FHQ while comparing Brits (N = 158) and Swedes (N = 169) in emotion recognition. The FHQ was found to have an acceptable fit in our first and second studies, with components being explained by theory. Results of the third study suggested that the traits of anger, extraversion, competitiveness and group identification could be predicted by various elements of friendship habits. Furthermore, British people seem to be more affected by social context when rating emotions than Swedish people as was found in 10 out of 12 of our analyses. Friendship habits were found to have significant but very small effects on emotions in social contexts. More needs to be done to improve our measurement of friendship habits before abandoning the theory completely. The results raise the need to question our theoretical understanding of individualistic and collectivist cultures. It has also implications for immigration. Future studies should make use of eye-tracking and EEG.}},
author = {{Howlett, Philip}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Friends with Emotions: Cross-cultural and friendship habit differences in the recognition of facial emotions between two individualistic cultures}},
year = {{2020}},
}