Compare And Contrast Ekman And Friesen

In Ekman and Friesen’s (1971) paper, they talk about an experiment aim to find out if emotion is specific to culture or universal. To test if emotion is universal, they first need to look for two different culture groups, and show one group with pictures of the other group’s facial expression, and then see if the first group of people can correctly name different expressions of the second culture group. To minimize the similarity of both groups (in order if they are familiar with each other’s emotion before), Ekman and Friesen need to find a most isolated civilization to participate in this experiment with Western culture, and finally they find the islanders on New Guinea. Experimenter assigns islanders into two groups: One group of islanders