Is there an in-group advantage in emotion recognition?
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Psychological Bulletin
- Vol. 128 (2) , 243-249
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.128.2.243
Abstract
H. A. Elfenbein and N. Ambady (2002) examined the evidence for an in-group advantage in emotion recognition, whereby recognition is generally more accurate for perceivers from the same cultural group as emotional expressors. D. Matsumoto's (2002) comment centered on 3 asserted methodological requirements. This response addresses the lack of consensus conceming these "requirements" and demonstrates that none alter the presence of the in-group advantage. His analyses had a serious flaw and, once corrected, replicated the original findings. Furthermore, he described results from his empirical work not meeting a literal interpretation of his own requirements. Overall, where Matsumoto considers subtle cross-cultural differences in emotional expression a methodological artifact in judgment studies, the present authors find a core phenomenon worthy of attention.Keywords
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