通过跨文化的绘画传达情感。

People use drawings to convey how they feel, yet we know little about how culture shapes such representations and how viewers from different cultures perceive them. We examined whether emotion recognition from drawings was better explained by the emotion-dialect account, which predicts an ingroup recognition advantage, or by the historical-heterogeneity account, which predicts a general recognizability advantage for drawings from historically heterogeneous societies. Across two production studies, Canadian and Chinese expressers produced drawings depicting seven emotion categories. Canadian ex