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Science Daily: Perception of emotion is culture-specific
ScienceDaily (Sep. 15, 2010) — Want to know how a Japanese person is feeling? Pay attention to the tone of his voice, not his face. That’s what other Japanese people would do, anyway. A new study examines how Dutch and Japanese people assess others’ emotions and finds that Dutch people pay attention to the facial expression more than Japanese people do. “As humans are social animals, it’s important for humans to understand the emotional state of other people to maintain good relationships,” says Akihiro Tanaka of Waseda Institute for Advanced Study in Japan. “When a man is smiling, probably he is happy, and when he is crying, probably he’s sad.”…
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Eidul Mubarak
To all my Muslim friends, Eidul Mubarak, Selamat Hari Raya and Maaf Zahir batin! Wish you all a blessed Eid and better life. As usual, we will be celebrating Eid here in Madrid. This year would be the worst for me personally as I’ll probably have to work @ the uni – that leaves me no time to prepare no rendang no lemang no kuah kacang …..we’ll be “qadha”-ing all that at the embassador’s house though <Wink>!
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I love skateboarding
My 4 year old Azim skate boarding.