Acknowledgement of emotional facial expression in Mexican college students

The aim of this study is to explore the patterns of emotion recognition in Mexican bilin-guals using the JACFEE (Matsumoto & Ekman, 1988). Previous cross cultural research has documented high agreement in judgments of facial expressions of emotion, however, none of the previous studies has i...

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Autores: Anguas-Wong, Ana María, Matsumoto, David
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:Perú
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/1414
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/psicologia/article/view/1414
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Emotions
facial expression
Mexican culture
universality college and bilingual students
Emociones
Expresión facial
Cultura mexicana
Universalidad
Estudiantes universitarios y bilingües
Facial expression
Universality
College and bilingual students
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Sumario:The aim of this study is to explore the patterns of emotion recognition in Mexican bilin-guals using the JACFEE (Matsumoto & Ekman, 1988). Previous cross cultural research has documented high agreement in judgments of facial expressions of emotion, however, none of the previous studies has included data from Mexican culture. Participants were 229 Mexican college students (mean age 21.79). Results indicate that each of the seven universal emotions: anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise was recognized by the participants above chance levels (p < .001), regardless of the gender or ethnicity of the posers. These findings replicate reported data on the high cross cultural agreement in emotion recognition (Ekman, 1994) and contribute to the increasing body of evidence regardingthe universality of emotions.