Cultural differences in vocal emotion recognition: a behavioural and skin conductance study in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau.

ABSTRACT: Cross-cultural studies of emotion recognition in nonverbal vocalizations not only support the universality hypothesis for its innate features, but also an in-group advantage for culture-dependent features. Nevertheless, in such studies, differences in socio-economic-educational status have not always been accounted for, with idiomatic translation of emotional concepts being a limitation, and the underlying psychophysiological mechanisms still un-researched. We set out to investigate whether native residents from Guinea-Bissau (West African culture) and Portugal (Western European culture)-matched for socio-economic-educational status, sex and language-varied in behavioural and autonomic system response during emotion recognition of nonverbal vocalizations from Portuguese individuals. Overal

SUBMITTER: Cosme G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8885546 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature