I Feel Your Voice: Cultural Differences in the Multisensory Perception of Emotion

• Published in: Psychological science Vol. 21; no. 9; pp. 1259 - 1262
• Main Authors: Tanaka, Akihiro, Koizumi, Ai, Imai, Hisato, Hiramatsu, Saori, Hiramoto, Eriko, de Gelder, Beatrice
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.09.2010; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Auditory perception; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Cues; Cultural differences; Emotion; Emotional expression; Emotions; Experimentation; Face; Facial Expression; Facial expressions; Female; Happiness; Humans; Information processing; Japan; Japanese culture; Judgment; Male; Netherlands; Perception; Perceptions; Research Reports; Senses; Sensory perception; Social interaction; Social perception; Social psychology; Speech; Speech Perception; Studies; Variability; Verbal communication; Visual Perception; Voice; Young Adult; Netherlands; Japan; emotion; audiovisual speech; cultural difference; multisensory perception

Cultural differences in emotion perception have been reported mainly for facial expressions and to a lesser extent for vocal expressions. However, the way in which the perceiver combines auditory and visual cues may itself be subject to cultural variability. Our study investigated cultural differenc...