# PTE Reading MCM #17: Cross-Cultural Recognition...

Reading: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers #17 - Level 3 - Feeds Reading

> Read the text and answer the question by choosing all the options that are correct. More than one answer is correct, and a wrong choice costs a point.

Most investigators concur that certain facial expressions suggest the same emotions in all people. Moreover, people in diverse cultures recognize the emotions manifested by facial expressions. In classic research Paul Ekman took photographs of people exhibiting the emotions of anger, disgust, fear, happiness, and sadness. He then asked people around the world to indicate what emotions were being depicted in them. Those queried ranged from European college students to members of the Fore, a tribe that dwells in the New Guinea highlands. All groups, including the Fore, who had almost no contact with Western culture, agreed on the portrayed emotions. The Fore also displayed familiar facial expressions when asked how they would respond if they were the characters in stories that called for basic emotional responses. Ekman and his colleagues more recently obtained similar results in a study of ten cultures in which participants were permitted to report that multiple emotions were shown by facial expressions. The participants generally agreed on which two emotions were being shown and which emotion was more intense.

According to the paragraph, which of the following was true of the Fore people of New Guinea?

- They did not want to be shown photographs.
- They were famous for their story-telling skills.
- They knew very little about Western culture.
- They show similarities in their expression of emotions with Europeans.

## Answer

- They knew very little about Western culture.
- They show similarities in their expression of emotions with Europeans.

## Explanation

The text confirms that the tribe mentioned had almost no exposure to Western society and that their emotional recognition matched that of other global groups, including Europeans.

## Hints

- Look for the specific section discussing the tribe in the New Guinea highlands.
- Check if the text supports the idea that emotional recognition is a shared human trait across diverse cultures.

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