Ethnic bias in the recognition of facial expressions

Sequence and priming in 15 month‐olds' reactions to brief arm restraint: evidence for a hierarchy of anger responses

“…This ordering of reliabilities differs from the order of the response hierarchy, thereby reducing concerns that the hierarchy might be an artifactual consequence of a differential reliability of identification (i.e., the easiest-to-detect behavior might be detected first, at a low intensity, while the most difficult to detect behavior might be seen last, only after it has reached a high intensity.) Why our coding reliability for facial expression was lower, and somewhat less than that often reported in the literature, is unclear, but may relate to the far higher proportion of nonCaucasian children in our sample compared to others and to the particular difficulties attending the interracial coding of facial expression [Keltner, 1995;Kilbride and Yarczower, 1983].…”

Burkina Faso and France: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Judgment of Action Readiness in Facial Expressions of Emotion

“…In order to investigate this hypothesis, we conducted a comparative study between an African and an European population. This choice was dictated by the fact that research on cross-cultural accuracy of emotion recognition has seldom examined African groups (for a review, see Elfenbein & Ambady, 2002), except for Zambians (Kilbride & Yarczower, 1983) and Ethiopians (Ducci, Arcuri, Georgis, & Sineshaw, 1982;Wolfgang & Cohen, 1988). Beyond the intrinsic interest of studying a given cultural group, it has been previously noted that Africans recognition performances are significantly less accurate than those of other cultural groups (Izard, 1971).…”

“…Beyond the intrinsic interest of studying a given cultural group, it has been previously noted that Africans recognition performances are significantly less accurate than those of other cultural groups (Izard, 1971). Moreover, Kilbride and Yarczower (1983) reported an ethnic bias in the recognition of facial expressions in the sense of a greater uncertainty of judgment of Zambians when assigning emotional labels to American facial expressions and more uncertainty of judgment of American observers to Zambian expressions. These results are in line with the literature about the recognition of faces which suggests a differential recognition of face according to one's own ethnic group.…”

The mediating role of general self efficacy on the relationship between culture and communication behavior of Syrians

“…Matsumoto (1989) found individualism to be positively correlated with perceived rates of negative emotions and predicted emotion recognition levels to be better in individualistic cultures that encourage free expression of emotions, thereby promoting a more accurate judgment of emotions. However, research that attempted to test emotion recognition of in-groups reached mixed results (Boucher & Carlson, 1980;Kilbride & Yarczower, 1983;Markham & Wang, 1996). Other studies supported the in-group hypothesis (Elfenbein & Ambady, 2003 C. Self-efficacy Bandura (1994, p.71) defined self-efficacy as 'people's beliefs about their capabilities to produce designated levels of performance that exercise influence over events that affect their lives.'…”