Attention to Context: U.S. and Japanese Children's Emotional Judgments

Autor/inn/en	Kuwabara, Megumi; Son, Ji Y.; Smith, Linda B.
Titel	Attention to Context: U.S. and Japanese Children's Emotional Judgments
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 12 (2011) 4, S.502-517 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
DOI	10.1080/15248372.2011.554927
Schlagwörter	Cues; Nonverbal Communication; Cross Cultural Studies; Cultural Differences; Monolingualism; Foreign Countries; Adults; Comparative Analysis; Children; Japanese; English; Preschool Education; Preschool Children; Early Childhood Education; Attention; Indiana; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Kultureller Unterschied; Ausland; Child; Kind; Kinder; Japaner; Japanisch; English language; Englisch; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Children; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschule; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Aufmerksamkeit; USA
Abstract	A growing number of studies suggests cultural differences in the attention and evaluation of information in adults (Hedden, Ketay, Aron, Markus, & Gabrieli, 2008; Markus & Kitayama, 1991; Masuda & Nisbett, 2001). One cultural comparison, between Westerners, such as Americans, and Easterners, such as the Japanese, suggests that Westerners typically focus on a central single object in a scene while Easterners often integrate their judgment of the focal object with surrounding contextual cues. There are few studies of whether such cultural differences are evident in children. This study examined 48 monolingual Japanese-speaking children residing in Japan and 48 monolingual English-speaking children residing in the United States (40- to 60-month-olds) in a task asking children to complete a picture by adding the proper emotional expression to a face. The key variable was the context and shift in context from the preceding trial for the same pictured individual. Japanese children were much more likely to shift their judgments with changes in context, whereas children from the United States treated facial expression in a more trait-like manner, maintaining the same expression for the individual across contexts. (Contains 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10