Spontaneous Emotional Communication and Social Biofeedback: A Cross-Cultural Study of Emotional Expression and Communication in Chinese and Taiwanese Students.

Autor/inn/en	Buck, Ross; Teng, Wan-Cheng
Titel	Spontaneous Emotional Communication and Social Biofeedback: A Cross-Cultural Study of Emotional Expression and Communication in Chinese and Taiwanese Students.
Quelle	(1987), (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Affective Behavior; Body Language; College Students; Cultural Differences; Emotional Response; Facial Expressions; Foreign Students; Higher Education; Nonverbal Communication; Sex Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Körpersprache; Collegestudent; Kultureller Unterschied; Emotionales Verhalten; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Sex difference; Geschlechtsunterschied
Abstract	Different cultures develop different rules of emotional expression and communication which may have important consequences within the culture and which may impose barriers to communication between cultures. A study was conducted to examine this issue. Emotionally-loaded color slides were shown to 44 college students from Taiwan and the People's Republic of China (PRC) who were attending college in the United States. Subjects' facial and gestural responses were videotaped. Later, and with their permission, the videotaped sequences were observed by the same Chinese students and also by 20 American students who attempted to determine the kind of slide presented from the facial/gestural reactions. Results indicated that the sex difference in sending accuracy usually found in Western students (with females being more expressive) did not occur in Chinese students. The usual finding of female superiority in receiving ability was, however, also found in the Chinese subjects. The students from Taiwan showed significantly greater sending accuracy than did students from the PRC, but there was no difference in receiving ability between these groups. There was no evidence that communication within a culture or group is more efficient than communication between cultures or groups in this data, and there was no evidence that cultural contact enhances spontaneous communication. (Author/NB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC