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【单选题】People fromEastAsia tend to have more difficulties than those fromEurope in distinguishing facial expressions - and a new report published online inCurrentBiology explains why.
Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly (均匀 的) across a face as Westerners do,Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.
"We show thatEasterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions," Jack saiD、"Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereasEasterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth. "
According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believeD、As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross cultural situations.
The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 WesternCaucasian and 13EastAsian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories : happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry,
or neutral. They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.
It turned out thatEasterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners. "The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions," Jack saiD、 " Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion,Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less. "
In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our under- standing of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures,Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.
What were the people asked to do in the study
A、To make a face at each other.
B、To get their faces impressive.
C、To classify some face pictures.
D、To observe the researchers’ faces.
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
[解析] 由第五段第一句中的“they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories”可知给不同表情的脸分类是研究对象要做的事情。故选C。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>