Cross-Cultural Research on Perception of Emotion, Such as That Conducted

question 94

Multiple Choice

Cross-cultural research on perception of emotion, such as that conducted by Elfenbein and Ambady (2003) , indicates that

• A) people are uniformly good at perceiving the emotional states of others based on nonverbal cues, regardless of whether perceivers and targets are from the same culture.
• B) people are fairly successful at perceiving the emotional states of individuals from other cultures, but we are better at judging emotions of individuals from our own culture.
• C) people are actually better at perceiving the emotional states of individuals from other cultures because they are not distracted by language use and other verbal cues.
• D) language comprehension plays a central role in the evaluation of emotion.