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Emotion Perception and Culture
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Abualula, Yosra
ORCID® Identifier
http://orcid.org/0009-0000-2341-6525
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1704995400508075
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2023, Master of Arts in Psychology, Cleveland State University, College of Sciences and Health Professions.
Abstract
The process of perceiving and expressing emotion is multifaceted and governed by a plethora of variables. Culture and group membership have been shown to influence how emotions are displayed and interpreted. Individuals demonstrate inaccurate emoting perception to members of an out-group. Furthermore, perceiving emotions depends on contextual cues, preconceived biases, and familiarity. Cultural cues have an embedded meaning that guide emotional inferences. For the present study, a sample of 40 Muslim female participants were shown pictures of veiled female faces. The type of veil was be manipulated using an Islamic niqab or simply a scarf and a winter cap. Participants were asked to identify the emotion being displayed (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, or neutral) within the veiled faces whereby only the eye region of each face will be visible. Overall, participants were able to identify happy and angry faces more accurately compared to neutral, sad and fear. Participants showed no differentiation in perceiving the covered faces between the two head covering conditions This suggests that cultural familiarity with face processing in the presence of head coverings may account for this absence of distinction.
Committee
Eric Allard (Committee Chair)
Kenneth Vail (Committee Member)
Shereen Naser (Committee Member)
Pages
60 p.
Subject Headings
Psychology
Keywords
Emotion Perception
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Culture
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Emotion Recognition
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Covered Faces
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Abualula, Y. (2023).
Emotion Perception and Culture
[Master's thesis, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1704995400508075
APA Style (7th edition)
Abualula, Yosra.
Emotion Perception and Culture.
2023. Cleveland State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1704995400508075.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Abualula, Yosra. "Emotion Perception and Culture." Master's thesis, Cleveland State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1704995400508075
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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Emotion Perception and Culture by Yosra Abualula is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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