Highlights•Supportive results for universality of emotion perception are method-
bound.•Cultural variation is observed in the specific cues that are prioritized by perceivers …

Emotion perception frequently involves the integration of visual and auditory information.
During multisensory emotion perception, the attention devoted to each modality can be …

In spoken language, verbal cues (what we say) and vocal cues (how we say it) contribute to
person perception, the process for interpreting information and making inferences about …

How language mediates emotional perception and experience is poorly understood. The
present event-related potential (ERP) study examined the explicit and implicit processing of …

Introduction Individuals from Western cultures rely on facial expressions during the
audiovisual emotional processing of faces and voices. In contrast, those from East-Asian …

Cultural context shapes the way that emotions are expressed and socially interpreted.
Building on previous research looking at cultural differences in judgements of facial …

The current study compared emotion perception in two cultures where display rules for
emotion expression deviate. In Experiment 1, participants from America and Korea played a …

Physical attractiveness is the degree to which a person's physical characteristics are
considered pleasing and appealing and plays an important role in interpersonal …

Background Behavioural research has shown that cultural membership can shape visual
perception and attentional processes. In picture perception, members of collectivist cultures …

Social context shapes our behavior in interpersonal communication. In this chapter, I will
address how experimental psychology contributes to the study of socio-linguistic processes …