主催: The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology
The current study investigated the cultural difference between American and Korean in reading other’s mind depending on the consistency of the emotional expression and the behavior. Participants played the prisoner’s dilemma game with a computer to get as many points as possible. The characteristic of the computer was set as a defector. In the consistent condition, computer showed a joyful face after winning lots of points and a regretful face after winning little points, and in the inconsistent condition, computer showed emotional expression vice versa. We found that participants in the inconsistent condition were more cooperative to the opponent than participants in the consistent condition, but this was only true for American group. Korean did not show the difference on cooperation rate depending on the consistency condition. This finding suggests that American is more susceptible to other’s emotional expression at the moment rather than other’s behavior as compared with Korean.
