Who's afraid of the boss: cultural differences in social hierarchies modulate self-face recognition in Chinese and Americans.

Human adults typically respond faster to their own face than to the faces of others. However, in Chinese participants, this self-face advantage is lost in the presence of one's supervisor, and they respond faster to their supervisor's face than to their own. While this "boss effect&qu...

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Main Authors: Sook-Lei Liew, Yina Ma, Shihui Han, Lisa Aziz-Zadeh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3040187?pdf=render