Constants across cultures in the face and emotion.
@article{Ekman1971ConstantsAC,
title={Constants across cultures in the face and emotion.},
author={Paul Ekman and W V Friesen},
journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
year={1971},
volume={17 2},
pages={
124-9
},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:14013552}
}Evidence is provided that members of a preliterate culture who had minimal exposure to literate cultures would associate the same emotion concepts with the same facial behaviors as do members of Western and Eastern literates.
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