“There is no face like home” : Ratings for cultural familiarity to own and other facial dialects of emotion with and without conscious awareness in a British sample

Myron TSIKANDILAKIS; Leonie KAUSEL; Gonzalo BONCOMPTE; Zhaoliang YU; Matt OXNER; Renzo LANFRANCO; Persefoni BALI; Poutasi URALE; Jonathan PEIRCE; Vladimir LÓPEZ; Eddie Mun Wai TONG; William  HAYWARD; David CARMEL; Jan DERRFUSS; Peter CHAPMAN

doi:10.1177/0301006619867865

“There is no face like home” : Ratings for cultural familiarity to own and other facial dialects of emotion with and without conscious awareness in a British sample

Myron TSIKANDILAKIS^*, Leonie KAUSEL, Gonzalo BONCOMPTE, Zhaoliang YU, Matt OXNER, Renzo LANFRANCO, Persefoni BALI, Poutasi URALE, Jonathan PEIRCE, Vladimir LÓPEZ, Eddie Mun Wai TONG, William HAYWARD, David CARMEL, Jan DERRFUSS, Peter CHAPMAN

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Abstract

The dialects theory of cross-cultural communication suggests that due to culture-specific characteristics in the expression of emotion, we can recognise own-culture emotional expressions more accurately than other-culture emotional expressions. This effect is suggested to occur due to the nonconvergent social evolution that takes place in different geographical regions. Based on the evolutionary value of own-culture social signals, previous research has suggested that own-culture emotional expressions can be appraised without conscious awareness. The current study tested this hypothesis. We developed, validated, and made open access what is to our knowledge the first labelled, multicultural facial stimuli set, including freely expressed and Facial Action Coding System instructed emotional expressions. We assessed emotional recognition and cultural familiarity responses during brief backward-masked presentations in British participants. We found that emotional recognition and cultural familiarity were higher for own-culture faces. A Bayesian analysis of face-detection and emotional-recognition performance revealed that faces were not processed subliminally. Further analysis of awareness, using hits (correct detection/recognition) and misses (incorrect detection/recognition), showed that face-detection hits were a necessary condition for reporting higher familiarity for own-culture faces. These findings suggest that the own-culture emotional recognition advantage is preserved under conditions of backwards masking and that the appraisal of cultural familiarity involves conscious awareness.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	918-947
Number of pages	30
Journal	Perception
Volume	48
Issue number	10
Early online date	27 Aug 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006619867865
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2019
Externally published	Yes

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The primary author would like to acknowledge that this manuscript is the end-product of 2 years of dedicated work from a total of fifteen researchers in five international institutions. The co-authorship order indicates the order of recruitment in the current project. Co-authors two to seven were the original project members and have equal contribution and co-authorship status for the current manuscript. All measures, manipulations, and exclusions in the study were disclosed, and no data were collected after the initial analysis. Many thanks go to our families, friends, and academic colleagues who supported us during this project. The primary author would like to thank Zoltan Dienes and Talis Bachmann.

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© The Author(s) 2019.

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backward masking
consciousness
culture

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TSIKANDILAKIS, M., KAUSEL, L., BONCOMPTE, G., YU, Z., OXNER, M., LANFRANCO, R., BALI, P., URALE, P., PEIRCE, J., LÓPEZ, V., TONG, E. M. W., HAYWARD, W., CARMEL, D., DERRFUSS, J., & CHAPMAN, P. (2019). “There is no face like home” : Ratings for cultural familiarity to own and other facial dialects of emotion with and without conscious awareness in a British sample. Perception, 48(10), 918-947. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006619867865

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