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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: The Tale I Read on Your Face Depends on Who I Believe You Are: Introducing How Social Factors Might Influence the Decoder's Interpretation of Facial Expression
- 1 Implications of Ingroup-Outgroup Membership for Interpersonal Perceptions: Faces and Emotion
- 2 When Two Do the Same, It Might Not Mean the Same: The Perception of Emotional Expressions Shown by Men and Women
- 3 It Takes One to Know One Better: Controversy about the Cultural Ingroup Advantage in Communicating Emotion as a Theoretical Rather Than Methodological Issue
- 4 Beauty Is in the Eyes of the Perceiver: The Impact of Affective Stereotyping on the Perception of Outgroup Members' Facial Expressions
- 5 The Perception of Crying in Women and Men: Angry Tears, Sad Tears, and the “Right Way” to Cry
- 6 Tell Me a Story: Emotional Responses to Emotional Expression during Leader “Storytelling”
- 7 Apples and Oranges: Methodological Requirements for Testing a Possible Ingroup Advantage in Emotion Judgments from Facial Expressions
- 8 Others' Faces' Tales: An Integration
- Index
- Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
- References
8 - Others' Faces' Tales: An Integration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: The Tale I Read on Your Face Depends on Who I Believe You Are: Introducing How Social Factors Might Influence the Decoder's Interpretation of Facial Expression
- 1 Implications of Ingroup-Outgroup Membership for Interpersonal Perceptions: Faces and Emotion
- 2 When Two Do the Same, It Might Not Mean the Same: The Perception of Emotional Expressions Shown by Men and Women
- 3 It Takes One to Know One Better: Controversy about the Cultural Ingroup Advantage in Communicating Emotion as a Theoretical Rather Than Methodological Issue
- 4 Beauty Is in the Eyes of the Perceiver: The Impact of Affective Stereotyping on the Perception of Outgroup Members' Facial Expressions
- 5 The Perception of Crying in Women and Men: Angry Tears, Sad Tears, and the “Right Way” to Cry
- 6 Tell Me a Story: Emotional Responses to Emotional Expression during Leader “Storytelling”
- 7 Apples and Oranges: Methodological Requirements for Testing a Possible Ingroup Advantage in Emotion Judgments from Facial Expressions
- 8 Others' Faces' Tales: An Integration
- Index
- Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
- References
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Authors' Note
The writing of this chapter was facilitated by grants from the “Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique de Belgique” 8.4510.99 and 8.4510.03, and by a grant ARC 96/01-198 from the University of Louvain to the second author and by a grant from the “Fond Québecois de la Recherche sur la société et la culture” to the first author. Correspondence regarding this chapter should be addressed to Ursula Hess at Hess.Ursula@UQAM.ca.
The aim of this book was to present recent thinking and research on the interaction between encoding and decoding processes from a social context perspective. In this context, we wanted to emphasize the influence that norms and beliefs, as well as the social characteristics of both the encoder and the decoder, have on the perception of emotion. That the interpretation of emotion displays should be informed by the social context is an important corollary of not only social-constructivist approaches which place emotions entirely in the service of social coordination but also by evolutionist approaches. Thus, Turner (1997) asserts that emotions evolved in part to provide the means for effective sanctioning and the enforcement of moral codes within groups of hominids. His basic argument is that the communication of emotions in humans was a necessary prerequisite for social bonding among hominids.
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- Group Dynamics and Emotional Expression , pp. 182 - 190Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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