英國(guó)一項(xiàng)最新研究顯示,，東方人和西方人在辨別面部表情上存在差異,，這可能導(dǎo)致對(duì)相同面部表情的不同理解。
英國(guó)格拉斯哥大學(xué)的研究人員8月13日在美國(guó)《當(dāng)代生物學(xué)》（Current Biology）雜志上報(bào)告說(shuō)，他們請(qǐng)13名西方人和13名東方人辨識(shí)7種基本面部表情的圖片,。結(jié)果發(fā)現(xiàn),，西方人“害怕”的表情在東方人看來(lái)是“驚訝”；西方人“厭惡”的表情在東方人看來(lái)是“憤怒”,。
研究人員認(rèn)為,，這可能是因?yàn)闁|方人和西方人對(duì)臉部表情的解讀方式不同：西方人會(huì)關(guān)注對(duì)方的整個(gè)面部表情；而東方人則主要關(guān)注對(duì)方的眼睛,，這種差異可能源于東西方文化上的差別,。（生物谷Bioon.com）
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Current Biology, 13 August 2009 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.051
Cultural Confusions Show that Facial Expressions Are Not Universal
Rachael E. Jack1,2,,,Caroline Blais3,Christoph Scheepers1,Philippe G. Schyns1,2andRoberto Caldara1,2,,
1 Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QB, Scotland, UK
2 Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi), University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QB, Scotland, UK
3 Départment de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
Central to all human interaction is the mutual understanding of emotions, achieved primarily by a set of biologically rooted social signals evolved for this purposefacial expressions of emotion. Although facial expressions are widely considered to be the universal language of emotion [1,2,3], some negative facial expressions consistently elicit lower recognition levels among Eastern compared to Western groups (see [4] for a meta-analysis and [5,6] for review). Here, focusing on the decoding of facial expression signals, we merge behavioral and computational analyses with novel spatiotemporal analyses of eye movements, showing that Eastern observers use a culture-specific decoding strategy that is inadequate to reliably distinguish universal facial expressions of fear and disgust. Rather than distributing their fixations evenly across the face as Westerners do, Eastern observers persistently fixate the eye region. Using a model information sampler, we demonstrate that by persistently fixating the eyes, Eastern observers sample ambiguous information, thus causing significant confusion. Our results question the universality of human facial expressions of emotion, highlighting their true complexity, with critical consequences for cross-cultural communication and globalization.
