How Does Context Affect Assessments of Facial Emotion? The Role of Culture and Age
- Authors
- Ko, Seon-Gyu; Lee, Tae-Ho; Yoon, Hyea-Young; Kwon, Jung-Hye; Mather, Mara
- Issue Date
- 3월-2011
- Publisher
- AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
- Keywords
- Asian vs. Western culture; aging; emotion recognition; context memory
- Citation
- PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING, v.26, no.1, pp.48 - 59
- Indexed
- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING
- Volume
- 26
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 48
- End Page
- 59
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/112963
- DOI
- 10.1037/a0020222
- ISSN
- 0882-7974
- Abstract
- People from Asian cultures are more influenced by context in their visual processing than people from Western cultures. In this study, we examined how these cultural differences in context processing affect how people interpret facial emotions. We found that younger Koreans were more influenced than younger Americans by emotional background pictures when rating the emotion of a central face, especially those younger Koreans with low self-rated stress. In contrast, among older adults, neither Koreans nor Americans showed significant influences of context in their face emotion ratings. These findings suggest that cultural differences in reliance on context to interpret others' emotions depend on perceptual integration processes that decline with age, leading to fewer cultural differences in perception among older adults than among younger adults. Furthermore, when asked to recall the background pictures, younger participants recalled more negative pictures than positive pictures, whereas older participants recalled similar numbers of positive and negative pictures. These age differences in the valence of memory were consistent across culture.
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