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A follow-up analysis revealed that, overall, Finnish participants gave more looking-at-me responses to Japanese than Finnish faces (F (1, 29) = 12.30, p = .002), while the cultural background of stimulus faces had no effect on Japanese participants’ responses (F (1, 29) = 0.11, p = .748). Fig 3. Means of the percentage of looking-at-me responses.
Feb 25, 2015 · This study investigated whether eye contact perception differs in people with different cultural backgrounds. Finnish (European) and Japanese (East Asian) participants were asked to determine whether Finnish and Japanese neutral faces with various gaze directions were looking at them. Further, participants rated the face stimuli for emotion and other affect-related dimensions. The results ...
- Shota Uono, Jari K. Hietanen
- 2015
Feb 25, 2015 · This study investigated whether eye contact perception differs in people with different cultural backgrounds. Finnish (European) and Japanese (East Asian) participants were asked to determine whether Finnish and Japanese neutral faces with various gaze directions were looking at them. Further, participants rated the face stimuli for emotion and ...
- Shota Uono, Jari K. Hietanen
- 2015
Both Japanese and Finnish people showed decreased heart rates on seeing a face with direct gaze compared to a face with averted gaze, indicating that eye contact grabbed the attention of both groups. However, it was revealed that Japanese people rated a face with direct gaze as more “unapproachable” and “angrier” than did Finnish people.
Japanese individuals rated the direct gaze face as more unapproachable and unpleasant than did Finnish individuals. Regarding the facial expression ratings (which bore a neutral expression), Japanese individuals rated the direct gaze faces as angrier than did Finnish individuals, and Japanese participants also rated direct gaze faces as angrier and sadder than when viewing averted gaze faces.
This study investigated the cultural differences in eye contact perception among Finnish (European) and Japanese (East Asian) individuals. We presented Finnish and Japanese faces with neutral expressions and various gaze directions (2°, 4°, 6°, 8°, 10° to the left and right, and 0°) to the participants. Finnish and Japanese participants ...
Aug 19, 2008 · The Western eyes focused heavily on the eyes and the mouth, exactly as predicted by other studies. But the eyes of the East Asian students homed in on the centre of the face, halfway up the nose and right in the middle of the triangle of attention carved out by their Western peers. In the image below, the red areas show where the Westerners ...
