“…Cross-cultural differences in processing multisensory emotions are arguably due largely to culture-specific display rules (Engelmann & Pogosyan, 2013;Ishii et al, 2003;Park & Huang, 2010). In East Asian (e.g., Chinese and Japanese) collectivist cultures, specific display rules are adopted to avoid conflicts and maintain social harmony, including indirect speech (Bilbow, 1997;McGloin, 1984), less eye contact (Hawrysh & Zaichkowsky, 1991;McCarthy, Lee, Itakura, & Muir, 2006;McCarthy, Lee, Itakura, & Muir, 2008), and restrained facial expressions (Ekman, 1971;Markus & Kitayama, 1991;Matsumoto, Takeuchi, Andayani, Kouznetsova, & Krupp, 1998).…”