Culture and emotion perception: comparing Canadian and Japanese children’s and parents’ context sensitivity

Lee, Hajin; Nand, Kristina; Shimizu, Yuki; Takada, Akira; Kodama, Miki; Masuda, Takahiko

doi:10.1007/s40167-017-0052-0

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“…Under the rubrics of scaffolding processes (Wood et al, 1976), guided participation (Rogoff, 2003), zone of proximal development (Cole, 1996;Greenfield & Bruner, 1969;Luria, 1976;Vygotsky, 1930Vygotsky, /1978, joint attention (Tomasello, 1999), and cultural transmission (Mesoudi, 2011;Richerson & Boyd, 2005), cultural psychologists have also examined how parental guidance directly influences children's patterns of attention during tasks (Fernald & Morikawa, 1993;Ishii, Miyamoto, Rule, & Toriyama, 2014;Lee et al, 2017;Senzaki et al, 2016). These studies demonstrated that caregivers directed their children's attention in culturally dominant ways: North American mothers tended to direct infants to attend to focal objects, whereas Japanese mothers tended to direct infants to attend to the MASUDA 9 of 16 relationships between focal and background objects.…”

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Culture and attention: Recent empirical findings and new directions in cultural psychology

Masuda

2017

Social & Personality Psych

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Over the past 3 decades, cultural psychologists have empirically investigated the influence of cultural meaning systems on human psychology. Under the rubric of holistic versus analytic thought, researchers have demonstrated that there are substantial cultural variations in social cognition, and that such variations are observable even in so-called fundamental psychological processes, such as attention. The aim of this paper is to review 3 major themes in culture and attention: (1) culture and attention to nonsocial scenes, (2) culture and attention to social scenes, and (3) culture and aesthetics. The paper also discusses 4 major strands of research that could be considered important candidates to further advance the understanding of culture and attention: (1) research on "culture ➔ human psychological processes," where we investigate how culture influences modes of attention; (2) research on "human psychology ➔ cultural processes," where we investigate how those who hold a specific mode of attention create cultural products and tangible representations of culturally shared meanings; (3) research on cultural neuroscience, where we investigate underlying mechanisms and processes of specific modes of attention; and (4) research on cultural transmission processes, where we investigate how specific modes of attention is taught by adults and internalized by children.

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Section: Research On Cultural Transmission Processesmentioning

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Culture and attention: Recent empirical findings and new directions in cultural psychology

Masuda

2017

Social & Personality Psych

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“…We wanted to see each mother's tendency to use social evaluative expressions constantly while watching others’ social behaviors with infants. Therefore, following previous studies that compared maternal speech between Japanese and Canadians using similar types of materials (i.e., short presentations of social stimuli; Lee, Nand, et al., ; Masuda et al., in press), we used the current coding scheme.…”

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The Influence of Maternal Socialization on Infants’ Social Evaluation in Two Cultures

Shimizu

Senzaki

Uleman

2018

Infancy

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Although a growing body of research has explored the early development of social evaluation, no research has directly compared social evaluations of infants between different cultures. In addition, there has been little understanding regarding socialization's effects on this ability. The goal of this study was to expand on earlier findings on social evaluation in infants by investigating a broader sample from two cultures, and to explore the influence of maternal socialization on infants’ social evaluation. Using the violation of expectations and the preferential reaching paradigm, four groups aged 6‐, 9‐, 12‐, and 15–18 months and their mothers from Japan and the United States (159 dyads) were compared in terms of spontaneous social evaluations. Japanese and European American infants showed similar performance in dishabituation to the inconsistent behavior and in their reaching preference for prosocial over antisocial agents, indicating that the emergence of spontaneous social evaluation is not culture‐specific. Furthermore, our study provides a novel finding regarding the relationship between mothers’ socially evaluative speech and infants’ preference for prosocial over antisocial agents. These results suggest that the development of sociomoral understanding results from complicated interactions among evolutionary, cognitive, and social factors.

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“…However, when working on a task with their parents, older children (ages 7 to 9 years) do demonstrate culturally specific attentional styles (i.e., local attention in Western/global attention in Eastern). Thus, it is possible that children gradually develop a dominant attentional style based on their daily parental interactions (Lee et al, 2017). In the current context, we hypothesize that these differences in attentional styles influence variation in the ability to integrate local features (recognizing elements of an object's features; car doors) and global features (recognizing the configuration of the entire object; size and shape) in object processing.…”

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Children’s scale errors and object processing: Early evidence for cross-cultural differences

Ishibashi

Twomey

Westermann

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Infant Behavior and Development

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Highlights・We examined the relationship between children's scale errors and their categorization ability in Japan and UK.・UK children who showed greater local processing made more scale errors, whereas Japanese children, who overall showed greater global processing, showed no such relationship.・Suppression of scale errors in children may emerge not from attention to size per se, but from an integration of global and local information during object processing.

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Culture and emotion perception: comparing Canadian and Japanese children’s and parents’ context sensitivity

Cited by 8 publications

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Culture and attention: Recent empirical findings and new directions in cultural psychology

Culture and attention: Recent empirical findings and new directions in cultural psychology

The Influence of Maternal Socialization on Infants’ Social Evaluation in Two Cultures

Children’s scale errors and object processing: Early evidence for cross-cultural differences

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