Table 1.

Mean recognition rates (percent correct target identification) and emotional intensity ratings of the vocal and facial stimuli by emotion and cultural group (standard deviation in parentheses).

	Voices				Faces
	English		Chinese		English		Chinese
	Fear	Sadness	Fear	Sadness	Fear	Sadness	Fear	Sadness
Recognition rates	90.6 (1.8)	92.5 (2.7)	91.2 (5.2)	91.2 (5.2)	90.8 (8.6)	91.7 (9.3)	91.2 (7.6)	90.9 (10.0)
Intensity ratings	2.4 (0.3)	2.4 (0.4)	2.5 (0.3)	2.4 (0.3)	2.4 (0.3)	2.4 (0.4)	2.3 (0.4)	2.6 (0.5)

For each stimulus, the participant made two consecutive judgments: they first identified the emotion being expressed by each item in a six forced-choice emotion recognition task (with happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, fear, neutrality as the 6 options); immediately after, they rated the intensity of the emotion they had selected in the previous recognition task on a 5-point rating scale, where 0 indicated “not intense at all” and 4 indicated “very intense”.