The Authors of Your Text Present a Study by Masuda

question 98

Multiple Choice

The authors of your text present a study by Masuda and his colleagues (2008) that examined cultural differences in social perception. They compared how participants perceived a central character when the surrounding characters in a picture either matched or mismatched the central character's facial expression. When the central and peripheral characters' expressions did not match, Japanese participants were most likely to __________.

• A) keep their judgments the same as they would be if the peripheral people's expressions matched
• B) think that the central character felt the opposite of the peripheral characters
• C) rate the central character more similarly to the peripheral characters
• D) rate all characters as being less emotional

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