AN INVESTIGATION OF RECOGNITION OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS OF FIVE EMOTIONS: A STUDY AMONG YORUBA CULTURE
AN INVESTIGATION OF RECOGNITION OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS OF FIVE EMOTIONS: A STUDY AMONG YORUBA CULTURE
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1984
Authors
LAWAL, F. MUTIAT
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Abstract
This study looks closelv at Tomkin s (1962,1963)
theory of emotion which relates the central nervous
system (CHS) activity v/ith the behaviour of facial
muscles in the facial expressions of emotions. The
sample of this study consist of one hundred adult
subjects both male and female, selected from the
Yoruba cultures of Nigeria, e.g., 50 male Yoruba adults
and 50 female Yoruba adults.
In this study the unvestiqator is concerned
about the facial expression of the following five
emotions of Happiness, Sadness, Anqer, Fear and love
cf both males and females of the Yoruba culture of
Niqeria. Most people expect emotions to be expressed
in a person's face in a particular way seperate from
the of it.
Photographs of both male and females of the
Western film, Indian film, Chinese film and. Nigerian
film stars posing for each of the following emotions of
happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and love were presented
to the subjects for recoqnition one by one.
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A questional re containing questions about the facial
expression of emotions posed on the various photoqraph
was also presented, to each of the subject0 Analysis
of data was done by usinq the university computer with
the proqramme of T-test. This test calls for interval
scale measuresc For each of the five emotions the
investiqator calculated the t-values and tested those
for siqnif i cance „
The results showed that there wore no significant
difference in the recoqnition performance by the
subjects of the four different cultures as far as the
emotions of sadness and happiness were concerned.
Moreover, the same siqnificant results were obtained
for the facial expressions of "Love'' when they were
obtained from the female actors onlyThe
study is concluded with some discussion and
criticism of the Tomkins theory of emotion.
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EDUCATION, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, SAMARU -
ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR MASTER OF EDUCATION DEGREE (M.ED) IN EDUCATIONAL
PSYCHOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Keywords
INVESTIGATION,, RECOGNITION ,, FACIAL EXPRESSIONS,, FIVE EMOTIONS,, STUDY AMONG YORUBA CULTURE ,