Acknowledgement of emotional facial expression in Mexican college students

• Autores: Anguas-Wong, Ana María, Matsumoto, David
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2007
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/1414
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/psicologia/article/view/1414
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Emotions; facial expression; Mexican culture; universality college and bilingual students; Emociones; Expresión facial; Cultura mexicana; Universalidad; Estudiantes universitarios y bilingües; Facial expression; Universality; College and bilingual students

The aim of this study is to explore the patterns of emotion recognition in Mexican bilin-guals using the JACFEE (Matsumoto & Ekman, 1988). Previous cross cultural research has documented high agreement in judgments of facial expressions of emotion, however, none of the previous studies has included data from Mexican culture. Participants were 229 Mexican college students (mean age 21.79). Results indicate that each of the seven universal emotions: anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise was recognized by the participants above chance levels (p < .001), regardless of the gender or ethnicity of the posers. These findings replicate reported data on the high cross cultural agreement in emotion recognition (Ekman, 1994) and contribute to the increasing body of evidence regardingthe universality of emotions.