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. 2017 Mar;17(2):337-347.
doi: 10.1037/emo0000236. Epub 2016 Oct 13.

Recognizing spontaneous facial expressions of emotion in a small-scale society of Papua New Guinea

Carlos Crivelli  1 , James A Russell  2 , Sergio Jarillo  3 , José-Miguel Fernández-Dols  1
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Recognizing spontaneous facial expressions of emotion in a small-scale society of Papua New Guinea

Carlos Crivelli et al. Emotion. 2017 Mar.

Abstract

We report 2 studies on how residents of Papua New Guinea interpret facial expressions produced spontaneously by other residents of Papua New Guinea. Members of a small-scale indigenous society, Trobrianders (Milne Bay Province; N = 32, 14 to 17 years) were shown 5 facial expressions spontaneously produced by members of another small-scale indigenous society, Fore (Eastern Highlands Province) that Ekman had photographed, labeled, and published in The Face of Man (1980), each as an expression of a basic emotion: happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, and disgust. Trobrianders were asked to use any word they wanted to describe how each person shown felt and to provide valence and arousal ratings. Other Trobrianders (N = 24, 12 to 14 years) were shown the same photographs but asked to choose their response from a short list. In both studies, agreement with Ekman's predicted labels was low: 0% to 16% and 13% to 38% of observers, respectively. (PsycINFO Database Record

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