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  • Cross-cultural psychology
  • Social cognition
  • Nonverbal communication

Background:

  • Cultural display rules significantly influence how emotions are expressed and perceived.
  • Understanding cross-cultural differences in emotion perception is crucial for effective interpersonal interactions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how cultural display rules affect emotion perception in an interpersonal context.
  • To compare emotion perception between American and Korean participants in a strategic interaction game.

Main Methods:

  • Participants engaged in a repeated prisoner's dilemma game with a programmed defector.
  • Emotion expressions were conveyed through emoticons (joyful vs. regretful) after game rounds.
  • Behavioral responses (defection/cooperation) were recorded based on emoticon conditions.

Main Results:

  • Americans in the matching (joyful) condition were more likely to defect, indicating greater weight on positive expressions.
  • Koreans showed a smaller difference between conditions, suggesting less reliance on expressed emotions.
  • Korean participants cooperated more when perceiving a Westerner in the mismatching (regretful) condition.

Conclusions:

  • Emotion perception is guided by an individual's cultural display rules.
  • Perception is also dynamically influenced by the perceived cultural background of the interaction partner.
  • This highlights the interplay between cultural norms and situational context in social decision-making.