Sensitivity of Canadians, Latin Americans, Ethiopians, and Israelis to interracial facial expressions of emotions

Wolfgang, Aaron; Cohen, Morton I.

doi:10.1016/0147-1767(88)90045-4

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“…The in-group advantage can lead to increased accuracy in visual emotion detection for members of the same ethnicity [66,68]. Similar results were obtained with regard to emotional detection of speech.…”

Section: Empathic Reaction To Out-group Members' Feelingssupporting

confidence: 73%

Can the crowd tell how I feel? Trait empathy and ethnic background in a visual pain judgment task

Matsangidou

Otterbacher

Ang

et al. 2018

Univ Access Inf Soc

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Many advocate for artificial agents to be empathic. Crowdsourcing could help, by facilitating human-in-the-loop approaches and data set creation for visual emotion recognition algorithms. Although crowdsourcing has been employed successfully for a range of tasks, it is not clear how effective crowdsourcing is when the task involves subjective rating of emotions. We examined relationships between demographics, empathy, and ethnic identity in pain emotion recognition tasks. Amazon MTurkers viewed images of strangers in painful settings, and tagged subjects' emotions. They rated their level of pain arousal and confidence in their responses, and completed tests to gauge trait empathy and ethnic identity. We found that Caucasian participants were less confident than others, even when viewing other Caucasians in pain. Gender correlated to word choices for describing images, though not to pain arousal or confidence. The results underscore the need for verified information on crowdworkers, to harness diversity effectively for metadata generation tasks.

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Section: Empathic Reaction To Out-group Members' Feelingssupporting

confidence: 73%

Can the crowd tell how I feel? Trait empathy and ethnic background in a visual pain judgment task

Matsangidou

Otterbacher

Ang

et al. 2018

Univ Access Inf Soc

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“…This study found a significant difference in accuracy of recognition scores between the raters (Kilbride & Yarczower, 1983). Latin American, Canadian, Israeli, and Ethiopian groups were examined by Wolfgang and Cohen (1990). The South American and Canadian students made more errors in identifying the facial expressions of Black West Indians than the facial expressions of White Anglo-Saxon individuals.…”

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Differences in the Communication of Affect: Members of the Same Race Versus Members of a Different Race

Weathers

Frank

Spell

2002

Journal of Black Psychology

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Communication (COAT-NC) were used to measure these skills. The results indicate race is a significant factor in the interpretation of emotion of facial expressions and prosodic features.. They suggest that individuals from a specific ethnic group are more accurate in decoding emotional cues from stimulus-containing individuals within the same ethnic group. Caucasians were not necessarily better than African Americans decoding communication of affect, but were more successful at interpreting the emotions of individuals within their ethnic group. The results indicate potential for miscommunications between African Americans and Caucasians.People form impressions based on physical characteristics. These impressions are complex judgments carried out by human beings in everyday life. An example of a complex judgment is the interpretation of emotions. Many people interpret an individual's emotion quickly through various forms including facial expression and prosody. When an individual expresses an emotion, the communication partner interprets the emotion and communicative intent. The sender encodes the emotional and proportional information JOURNAL

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“…Freeman (1984) found that preschool boys scored higher on a measure of cognitive empathy when judging targets of the same ethnicity than those of a different ethnicity. Wolfgang and Cohen (1988) found that Anglo Canadians were better able to recognize the facial expressions of Anglo Canadians than those of West Indian Canadians and vice versa. A similar pattern of results was found for Chinese and Australian participants by Markham and Wang (1996).…”

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Emotion recognition across cultures: The influence of ethnicity on empathic accuracy and physiological linkage.

Soto¹,

Levenson²

2009

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The present study tested whether empathic accuracy and physiological linkage during an emotion recognition task are facilitated by a cultural match between rater and target (cultural advantage model) or unaffected (cultural equivalence model). Participants were 161 college students of African American, Chinese American, European American or Mexican American ethnicity. To assess empathic accuracy-knowing what another person is feeling-participants ("raters") used a rating dial to provide continuous, real-time ratings of the valence and intensity of emotions being experienced by four strangers ("targets"). Targets were African American, Chinese American, European American or Mexican American women who had been videotaped having a conversation about their relationship with their dating partner in a previous study. Empathic accuracy was defined as the similarity between ratings of the videotaped interactions obtained from: (a) raters in the present study, who rated how the targets were feeling during the interaction; and (b) targets in the previous study, who had rated their own feelings during the interaction. To assess emotional empathy-feeling what another person is feeling-we drew on literatures that underscore the role that mimicry and contagion play in empathy and examined physiological linkage (similarity between raters' physiology when viewing the videotapes and targets' physiology when in the actual interaction). Our findings for empathic accuracy supported the cultural equivalence model, with no evidence of greater accuracy when raters viewed targets of their own ethnicity. Our findings for physiological linkage provided some support for the cultural advantage model, with greater physiological linkage when Chinese Americans viewed and rated Chinese American targets.Emotions play an essential role in human communication. An important part of our interpersonal lives is the production, perception, interpretation, and response to emotional signals. Being able to perceive these signals accurately carries clear advantages for predicting behavior, as well as forming and maintaining social bonds. These proximal functions impact more distal goals such as survival and reproduction in humans and in other species (Preston & de Waal, 2002). Thus, compelling advantages accrue to those individuals who can accurately read the emotions of others. These advantages may be even greater in situations when the individuals are members of the same in-group (Anderson & Keltner, 2002), suggesting a possible cultural advantage in emotion detection.Correspondence regarding this article should be addressed to José A. Soto, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802. Publisher's Disclaimer: The following manuscript is the final accepted manuscript. It has not been subjected to the final copyediting, fact-checking, and proofreading required for formal publication. It is not the definitive, publisher-authenticated version. The American Psychological Association and its Council of Editors di...

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Sensitivity of Canadians, Latin Americans, Ethiopians, and Israelis to interracial facial expressions of emotions

Cited by 32 publications

References 16 publications

Can the crowd tell how I feel? Trait empathy and ethnic background in a visual pain judgment task

Can the crowd tell how I feel? Trait empathy and ethnic background in a visual pain judgment task

Differences in the Communication of Affect: Members of the Same Race Versus Members of a Different Race

Emotion recognition across cultures: The influence of ethnicity on empathic accuracy and physiological linkage.

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