Aeh duanana oge beda beda Kang....ngan sarupa tapi beda..
On 8/18/09, Rahman <rsyaif...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Ceuk cenah mah geuning mimik (lain memek:))) jelema teh beda2 geuning? > Mimik alias akspresi... naon kira2 tarjamah Sunda na euy?R > > Human facial expressions aren't universal > > 15:04 13 August 2009 by Ewen Callaway > Facial expressions, Charles Darwin argued in The Expression of the Emotions > in Man and Animals, are a universal window into emotion. But new research > challenges that notion, showing that east Asian people struggle to recognise > facial expressions that western Caucasians attribute to fear and disgust. By > focusing on eyes and brows, Asians miss subtle cues conveyed via the mouth. > > "We question the universality of these specific signals," says Rachael > Jack, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Glasgow, UK, whose team > analysed how 13 Caucasian and 13 east Asian men and women interpret a > standardised set of facial expressions, thought to be racially neutral, > which is used widely in research. > > Caucasian volunteers had no problem distinguishing between expressions of > surprise, fear, disgust and anger. Asians, however, frequently confused fear > for surprise and disgust for anger, Jack's team found. > > An eye-tracking tool and software indicated that while Caucasians tended to > look at all parts of a face equally, Asians alternated their gaze between > the left and right eyes. > > Meanwhile, computer modelling of different facial expressions found that > the mouth is a much better telltale of a particular emotion than eyes and > brows. Relying solely on the eyes, the model found, creates ambiguity > between fear and surprise, and also anger and disgust – reflecting the > mistakes the east Asian volunteers made in the experiment. > > Go east > > Jack's results don't mean that people from east Asian countries are blind > to facial expressions of fear and disgust, but that there may be a different > way for these signals to be conveyed. "We need to find out what these > signals look like in eastern cultures," she says. > > East Asian cultures tend to frown on the display of negative emotions in > public, Jack says. It's possible that east Asians have learned that by > paying close attention to another person's eyes, they can spot facial > giveaways of muzzled feelings of disgust or fear, she says. > > Differences in the interpretation of facial expressions between Asians and > Caucasians are almost certainly cultural, not genetic, Jack says. To see if > people can switch strategies to suit different cultures, her team is > studying children born in the UK to Chinese parents. > > Journal reference: Current Biology, DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.051 (in > press) > > > http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17605-human-facial-expressions-arent-universal.html > > >
