INTERETHNIC FEATURES OF FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION

Abstract

The article examines the main foreign and domestic approaches and theories of the face perception and the facial expression recognition. It also goes behind the existing studies on the face perception by representatives of different ethnic groups, as well as the recognition of facial expression by different ethnophores, the influence of the display rules and emotion recognition, the effect of intragroup advantage, orientation of culture, closeness and openness of the ethnos, localization of facial expressions on the success of recognition of emotion, describes the characteristics of representatives of Asian culture. On the basis of the empirical study, the differences in the of facial expression recognition by the subjects are confirmed, which consist in the fact that subjects from Russia, on the whole, better recognize the basic emotions, and also better recognize them on faces of European and African descent.

Keywords

• facial expressionrecognition
• ethnophores
• ethnic features