Groups matter more for Japanese
This one hits close to home, U of A and Hokkaido University doing a collaborative study… go figure, here’s the repost.
From Terrie’s Take #460, HERE.
In an interesting experiment, researchers from the University of Alberta and Hokkaido University have found that Canadians and Japanese assess the moods of people they interact with differently. In the experiment, people from both nationalities were asked to judge whether a face in a photo was happy, angry, or sad. The photographed subject was standing in front of a group of other people who were also visible. More than half of the Canadians focused just on the face of the subject, while 72% of the Japanese took into account the looks on the faces of the group in the background. ***Ed: So it’s official, Japanese care more about groups when deciding a course of action.** (Source: TT commentary from sciencedaily.com, Mar 7, 2008)
