Hilary Elfenbein and Colleagues (2007) Have Proposed That People in Different

question 29

Multiple Choice

Hilary Elfenbein and colleagues (2007) have proposed that people in different cultures have different "accents" to their facial expressions of emotion. In order to demonstrate this phenomenon, they studied expressions of several emotions, as posed by participants in Quebec, Canada, and Gabon, Africa. Which of the following most accurately describes their findings?

• A) The muscles moved by participants in the two groups were the same, but the movements by African participants were more intense than the movements by Canadian participants.
• B) Poses by each group included muscle movements associated with the prototype expression of the emotion, but each group emphasized somewhat different sets of movements.
• C) Muscles moved in poses by the two groups were completely different, although individuals within each culture could recognize the expressions accurately.
• D) Results of this study are meaningless, because participants in the two groups spoke different languages.