The Authors of Your Text Present a Study by Masuda

question 105

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 do not match, Japanese participants were most likely to

• A) keep their judgments the same as it 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.