Trypophobia as an urbanized emotion: comparative research in ethnic minority regions of China

Zhu, Siqi; Sasaki, Kyoshiro; Jiang, Yue; Qian, Kun; Yamada, Yuki

doi:10.7717/peerj.8837

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“…Takahashi et al ( 2017 ) suggested that differences in exposure to emoticons between individuals living in urban and ethnic minorities in rural areas may affect the sensitivity to emotion recognition of emoticons. Zhu et al ( 2020 ) showed that the sensitivity of trypophobia, or the emotion of a strong aversion induced by clusters of holes or round objects (e.g., lotus seed pods), have differences between individuals living in urban and ethnic minorities in rural areas. These previous studies provide evidence that urbanization could affect emotion perception.…”

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Age of smile: a cross-cultural replication report of Ganel and Goodale (2018)

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Smiling is believed to make people look younger. Ganel and Goodale (Psychon Bull Rev 25(6):612–616, 10.3758/s13423-017-1306-8, 2018) proposed that this belief is a misconception rooted in popular media, based on their findings that people actually perceive smiling faces as older. However, they did not clarify whether this misconception can be generalized across cultures. We tested the cross-cultural validity of Ganel and Goodale’s findings by collecting data from Japanese and Swedish participants. Specifically, we aimed to replicate Ganel and Goodale’s study using segregated sets of Japanese and Swedish facial stimuli, and including Japanese and Swedish participants in groups asked to estimate the age of either Japanese or Swedish faces (two groups of participants × two groups of stimuli; four groups total). Our multiverse analytical approach consistently showed that the participants evaluated smiling faces as older in direct evaluations, regardless of the facial stimuli culture or their nationality, although they believed that smiling makes people look younger. Further, we hypothesized that the effect of wrinkles around the eyes on the estimation of age would vary with the stimulus culture, based on previous studies. However, we found no differences in age estimates by stimulus culture in the present study. Our results showed that we successfully replicated Ganel and Goodale (2018) in a cross-cultural context. Our study thus clarified that the belief that smiling makes people look younger is a common cultural misconception.

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“…Takahashi et al (2017) suggested that differences in exposure to emoticons between individuals living in urban and ethnic minorities in rural areas may affect the sensitivity to emotion recognition of emoticons. Zhu et al (2020) showed that the sensitivity of trypophobia, or the emotion of a strong aversion induced by clusters of holes or round objects (e.g., lotus seed pods), have differences between individuals living in urban and ethnic minorities in rural areas. These previous studies provide evidence that urbanization could affect emotion perception.…”

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Age of smile: A cross-cultural replication report of Ganel and Goodale (2018)

Yoshimura¹,

Morimoto²,

Murai³

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Smiling is believed to make people look younger. Ganel and Goodale (2018) proposed that this belief is a misconception rooted in popular media, based on their findings that people actually perceive smiling faces as older. However, they did not clarify whether this misconception can be generalized across cultures. We tested the cross-cultural validity of Ganel and Goodale’s findings by collecting data from Japanese and Swedish participants. Specifically, we aimed to replicate Ganel and Goodale’s study using segregated sets of Japanese and Swedish facial stimuli, and including Japanese and Swedish participants in groups asked to estimate the age of either Japanese or Swedish faces (two groups of participants × two groups of stimuli; four groups total). Our multiverse analytical approach consistently showed that the participants evaluated smiling faces as older in direct evaluations, regardless of the facial stimuli culture or their nationality, although they believed that smiling makes people look younger. Further, we hypothesized that the effect of wrinkles around the eyes on the estimation of age would vary with the stimulus culture, based on previous studies. However, we found no differences in age estimates by stimulus culture in the present study. Our results showed that we successfully replicated Ganel and Goodale (2018) in a cross-cultural context. Our study thus clarified that the belief that smiling makes people look younger is a common cultural misconception.

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“…Trypophobic discomfort can be caused by mid- and low-frequency visual components 19 , and disgust can be determined by cognitive appraisal 20 . There are indications that trypophobic disgust is affected by background images 21 , trypophobic image gists capture visual attention 22 , natural stimuli may cause more discomfort than man-made ones, and populations of different regions may have different levels of trypophobic tendencies 23 , 24 . This is relevant considering most studies on trypophobia have been published by scholars in Western countries.…”

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A social media network analysis of trypophobia communication

Meza

Koyama

2022

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Trypophobia has attracted scientific attention in recent years. Few related studies have recruited participants using online methods, and even less is known about health communication in an environment where trypophobia was first widely discussed (i.e., the Internet). This study describes communication patterns in a Facebook group for trypophobia by detecting frequent topics, top contributors, and their discourses. We identified key commenters and performed word frequency analysis, word co-occurrence analysis, topic modeling, and content analysis. Impactful users posted and replied more often when discussing peer-reviewed science. Triggering content was actively removed by the group administrators. A wide variety of triggers not discussed in trypophobia-related literature were frequently mentioned. However, there was a lack of discussion on peer-reviewed treatments. The combination of a few expert and many supportive amateur gatekeepers willing to understand trypophobia, along with active monitoring by administrators, might contribute to in-group trust and the sharing of peer-reviewed science by top users of the trypophobia Facebook group.

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Trypophobia as an urbanized emotion: comparative research in ethnic minority regions of China

Cited by 3 publications

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Age of smile: a cross-cultural replication report of Ganel and Goodale (2018)

Age of smile: a cross-cultural replication report of Ganel and Goodale (2018)

Age of smile: A cross-cultural replication report of Ganel and Goodale (2018)

A social media network analysis of trypophobia communication

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