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Cultural differences in vocal emotion recognition: a behavioural and skin conductance study in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau
Gonçalo Cosme (Cosme, G.); Vânia Tavares (Tavares, V. ); Guilherme Nobre (Nobre, G.); César Lima (Lima, C. F.); Rui Sá (Sá, R.); Pedro Joel Rosa (Rosa, P. J.); Diana Prata (Prata, D.); et al.
Título Revista
Psychological Research
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2022
Língua
Inglês
País
Alemanha
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Abstract/Resumo
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. Overall, Guinea–Bissauans (as out-group) responded significantly less accurately (corrected p <.05), slower, and showed a trend for higher concomitant skin conductance, compared to Portuguese (as in-group)—findings which may indicate a higher cognitive effort stemming from higher difficulty in discerning emotions from another culture. Specifically, accuracy differences were particularly found for pleasure, amusement, and anger, rather than for sadness, relief or fear. Nevertheless, both cultures recognized all emotions above-chance level. The perceived authenticity, measured for the first time in nonverbal cross-cultural research, in the same vocalizations, retrieved no difference between cultures in accuracy, but still a slower response from the out-group. Lastly, we provide—to our knowledge—a first account of how skin conductance response varies between nonverbally vocalized emotions, with significant differences (p <.05). In sum, we provide behavioural and psychophysiological data, demographically and language-matched, that supports cultural and emotion effects on vocal emotion recognition and perceived authenticity, as well as the universality hypothesis.
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Palavras-chave
  • Medicina Clínica - Ciências Médicas
  • Outras Ciências Médicas - Ciências Médicas
  • Psicologia - Ciências Sociais
  • Outras Humanidades - Humanidades
Registos de financiamentos
Referência de financiamento Entidade Financiadora
FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG-631952 Comissão Europeia
292/16 Bial Foundation
IF/00787/2014 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-030907 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
DSAIPA/DS/0065/2018 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
SFRH/BD/148088/2019 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
PD/BD/114460/2016 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
IF/00172/2015 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia