When it comes to emotions, Eastern and Western cultures see things very differently

PhysOrg.com | Apr. 6, 2008 (News Report)

Across two studies, participants viewed images, each of which consisted of one centre model and four background models in each image. The researchers manipulated the facial emotion (happy, angry, sad) in the centre or background models and asked the participants to determine the dominant emotion of the centre figure.

The majority of Japanese participants (72%) reported that their judgments of the centre person's emotions were influenced by the ... Full Story »

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by Dennis A. Abbott - Oct. 1, 2008

The study is too limited to draw firm conclusions from. Are the North American test-takers less holistic in their views or more test-oriented or more literal in their interpretations, or a combination of these? (If I were a subject I'd understand the question to mean I should exclude the background expressions from consideration.)