It was hypothesized (by others) that romantic love did not develop in certain cultures around the world because of their lack of industrialization. Similarly, could other emotions have developed in these cultures that did not develop in industrialized cultures and how could we discover those?
Ekman and Friesen have shown that emotion recognition in photographs is consistent across cultures. The emotions they explored were pretty basic ones though. How would you develop an experimental design to test for more complex emotions (such as romantic love that was explored by Jankowiak and Fisher primarily through anthropological and folklore studies)?
Eflenbein and Ambady's studies seem to suggest that culture does have an impact on how well groups of people are able to discern emotion. Do these findings invalidate evolutionary or cognitive theories of emotion?
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