Testing the Ingroup Advantage in Emotion Perception from Dynamic Posed and Spontaneous Expressions.

ABSTRACT: The ingroup advantage refers to the phenomenon of emotions being more accurately recognised when expressors and perceivers share the same cultural background. Though well-documented in studies using posed facial expressions, whether the in-group advantage generalizes to spontaneous expressions remains unclear. This pre-registered study examined cross-cultural emotion recognition using dynamic posed and spontaneous expressions in a balanced design. Perceivers from the Netherlands (N = 762) and China (N = 738) judged emotions from facial expressions produced by Dutch and Chinese expressors in a forced-choice emotion recognition task. Contrary to our hypothesis, we did not find a mutual ingroup advantage. Instead, we found a Decoder and an Encoder effect for both posed and spont

SUBMITTER: Cong YQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12627183 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature