Standard Cognitive and Mental Health Measures May Not Generalize Across Cultures
Boyin Feng,
Rosanna Sheehan,
Priyanka Utama
et al.
Abstract:Individuals worldwide share basic affective and cognitive abilities, and receive mental health diagnoses using similar scales, yet surprisingly little research has examined the validity of these measures across cultures. Here, we performed direct comparison between British participants (N = 187; 51.3% female, 48.7% male; age 19-73 years) and Chinese participants (N = 194; 66.5% female, 33.5% male; age 19-60 years) in mid-2022 on behavioural tasks of facial emotion recognition (with and without contextual faces… Show more
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