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1. • • 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.
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     Japanese find eye contact makes others unapproachable

2. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › articles › PMC4340785Eye Contact Perception in the West and East: A Cross-Cultural ...

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   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.

3. journals.plos.org › plosone › articleEye Contact Perception in the West and East: A Cross ... - PLOS

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   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.

   • Author: Shota Uono, Jari K. Hietanen

   • Publish Year: 2015

4. www.researchgate.net › publication › 272838895_Eye(PDF) Eye Contact Perception in the West and East: A Cross ...

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   Feb 25, 2015 · 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,...

5. trepo.tuni.fi › eye_contact_perception_2015Eye Contact Perception in the West and East: A Cross-Cultural ...

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   This study investigated whether eye contact perception differs in people with different cultur-al 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 ot...

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   In summary, this study found cultural differences in eye contact perception between Finnish and Japanese participants. The result indicated that Finnish participants were more likely to consider a slightly averted gaze as directed at them when viewing Japanese faces than when viewing Finnish faces. The cultural background of the stimulus faces had ...

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   We thank our volunteers for participating in the research and Essi Laitinen for her assistance in collecting the data.

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   Conceived and designed the experiments: SU JKH. Performed the experiments: SU JKH. Ana-lyzed the data: SU JKH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SU JKH. Wrote the paper: SU JKH.

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6. www.psypost.org › cultures-perceive-direct-eyeCultures perceive direct eye contact differently - PsyPost

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   Jun 22, 2015 · Scientists compared two cultural groups — Finnish and Japanese — to see if eye contact perception differed between the two. Past studies have shown that Westerners, in general, look to the mouth to determine facial expressions, and focus on the eyes and mouth when memorizing faces; East Asians attend to the eyes and center of the face ...

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7. www.u-tokyo.ac.jp › focus › enJapanese find eye contact makes others unapproachable

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   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.

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   Do Finnish and Japanese people perceive eye contact differently?

   • In summary, this study found cultural differences in eye contact perception between Finnish and Japanese participants. The result indicated that Finnish participants were more likely to consider a slightly averted gaze as directed at them when viewing Japanese faces than when viewing Finnish faces.

   Eye Contact Perception in the West and East: A Cross-Cultural Study

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   Are Finnish faces more aroused than Japanese faces?

   • A follow-up analysis indicated that Japanese participants tended to rate Finnish faces as more aroused than Japanese faces (F (1, 29) = 3.65, p = .066). The cultural background of the stimulus faces had no effect on Finnish participants’ arousal ratings (F (1, 29) = 1.87, p > .10). Dominance and warmth

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   Do Japanese and Finnish faces influence ceptance?

   • A follow-up analysis showed that Japanese faces in- (1, 58) = 9.11, = .004). In contrast, Finnish faces induced = .040). An ANOVA on the PSE values revealed the same pattern of results described above (see Fig. 4). We found a main effect of stimulus faces cultural background ( (1, 58) = ’ 4.99, ceptance was greater for Japanese than Finnish faces.

   Eye Contact Perception in the West and East: A Cross-Cultural Study

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   Do Finnish and Japanese people look-at-me more?

   • 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.

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   Why do Finnish people have bigger eyes than Japanese?

   • For example, large eyes enhance the recognition of a fearful expression, while small eyes facilitate that of an angry expression . Consistent with this, both groups of participants gave higher fear and surprise ratings to Finnish than Japanese faces.

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   Are Japanese faces more angrier than Finnish faces?

   • They found that Japanese participants rated a face with a direct gaze as angrier, less approachable, and marginally less pleasant than Finnish participants. Further, faces with a direct gaze were rated as sadder than those with an averted gaze by Japanese but not Finnish participants.

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9. journals.plos.org › plosone › articleAttention to Eye Contact in the West and East: Autonomic ...

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   Additionally, we examined evaluative ratings of eye contact with another real person, displaying an emotionally neutral expression, between participants from Western European (Finnish) and East Asian (Japanese) cultures.