Exploring Cultural Differences in Expressive Suppression and Emotion Recognition.

ABSTRACT: Previous research has shown that the habit of suppressing emotional expressions is associated with long-term, general reductions in social cognitive abilities and interpersonal adjustment. This may be because theoretically, habitual suppression requires the fixation of attention to the self instead of to others. The present research explored the association between the habitual tendency to suppress one's own emotions and accuracy in recognizing the emotions of others. Emotion recognition accuracy was tested across two tasks, a limited-channel task that presents limited emotional information and a multimodal full-channel task. We further explored cultural differences in this association given that expressive suppression may be normative for individuals of Asian descent due to cultural motiv

SUBMITTER: Sun M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6205196 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature