Cross-cultural Research on Attention and Its Implications

Shuqing, Liu; Wang, Hailing; Peng, Kaiping; Zheng, Xuejun; Zaijia, Liu; Shengmei, XU

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1042.2013.00037

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“…These differences are perhaps due to differences in Eastern and Western philosophies ( Schimmack et al, 2002 ). Similarly, attention studies have found that Eastern pay more attention to backgrounds during visual tasks, which enables the understanding of relationships between objects and changes, while Westerners pay more attention to the target, which enables understanding of the features of an object ( Liu et al, 2013 ). McCarthy et al (2006) suggested that when Westerners know the answer to a question, they tend to maintain eye contact, while Easterners were more evasive.…”

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Fixation Patterns of Chinese Participants while Identifying Facial Expressions on Chinese Faces

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Hai-qing

et al. 2017

Front. Psychol.

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Two experiments in this study were designed to explore a model of Chinese fixation with four types of native facial expressions—happy, peaceful, sad, and angry. In both experiments, participants performed an emotion recognition task while their behaviors and eye movements were recorded. Experiment 1 (24 participants, 12 men) demonstrated that both eye fixations and durations were lower for the upper part of the face than for the lower part of the face for all four types of facial expression. Experiment 2 (20 participants, 6 men) repeated this finding and excluded the disturbance of fixation point. These results indicate that Chinese participants demonstrated a superiority effect for the lower part of face while interpreting facial expressions, possibly due to the influence of eastern etiquette culture.

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