Research report 2008 - Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Are human facial expressions of emotions the same in all cultures?
Authors
Senft, Gunter
Departments
Sprache und Kognition (Prof. Dr. Stephen Levinson)
MPI für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen
Summary
This paper presents a project which tests the hypothesis of the universality of facial expressions of emotions crossculturally and crosslinguistically. First results are presented which contradict the hypothesis.