
Decoding Emotions
Hidden Brain
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Is There a Difference Between Japanese and Turkish Emotions?
When volunteers, especially from minority backgrounds, didn't come up with the same list of emotions as volunteers from the Dutch majority or what the models predicted, you initially wrote off the Turkish and Surinamese volunteers in some ways as anomalies. But here you were in an adopted country finding it hard to read the emotional landscape around you. Did you start to think maybe what I was seeing in these studies, maybe these actually were not anomalies? Yes, it certainly did. Nothing is as good to challenge your own idea that your feelings are natural as moving to another culture.
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