Cultural Differences In Japanese Children And American Children

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Serah Narine
Lightbulb #3
SUNY Binghamton
Question
Will cultural differences in Japanese children and American children affect the way they recognize emotions, such as sadness?
Logic
The question can be converted into an experimental design where the children are presented with different faces that are in all different aspects of sadness. The independent variable is the race of the child (American or Japanese) and the dependent variable is their ability to recognize sad faces.
Methods
The faces that the children would see will range from happy to indifferent to distraught faces and the participants would then have to identify the emotion that they saw on the face (sad, happy, indifferent, etc.). The children would be measured on their ability

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