![]() ![]() Psychologists have provided abundant evidence demonstrating that the context of one’s culture affects cognition and social behavior, with systematic differences observed between East Asians (specifically, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese) and Westerners with respect to visual perception, attention, and reasoning ( Nisbett & Masuda, 2003 Nisbett, Peng, Choi, & Norenzayan, 2001) as well as motivation, relationality, and self-concept ( Markus & Kitayama, 1991 Oyserman, Coon, & Kemmelmeier, 2002). Our findings extend previous findings from the real world to cyberspace, and provide a novel approach to investigate cognition and behaviors across cultures by using Facebook as a data collection platform. These results demonstrate marked cultural differences in context-inclusive styles versus object-focused styles between East Asian and American Facebook users. Moreover, East Asian Facebook users had lower intensity of facial expression than Americans on their photographs. Specifically, East Asians living in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan exhibited a predilection for context inclusiveness in their profile photographs, whereas Americans tended to prioritize their focal face at the expense of the background. Overall, the two studies clearly showed that East Asian Facebook users are more likely to deemphasize their faces compared to Americans. For Study 2, 312 Facebook profiles of undergraduate students of six public universities in East Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan) and the United States (California and Texas) were randomly selected. For Study 1, 200 digital profile face photographs of active Facebook users were randomly selected from native and immigrant Taiwanese and Americans. We examined cultural differences in face/frame ratios for Facebook profile photographs in two studies. ![]() Here we have demonstrated that such systematic cultural variations can also be observed in cyberspace, focusing on self-presentation of photographs on Facebook, the most popular worldwide online social network site. Pico Day is June 11th! Prizes are almost $2k and we’re crowdfunding for more.Prior research in social psychology indicates that East Asians from collectivistic and interdependent sociocultural systems are more sensitive to contextual information than Westerners, whereas Westerners with individualistic and independent representation have a tendency to process focal and discrete attributes of the environment. If you want to make something with Flash, you still have time! Over $3,600 in prizes. Musicians, check out the upcoming Audio Tag Team and Art Inspired Music events! Voice Acting Contest #14 Round 1 is in progress! Read that post for more details, this event is open to everyone. The MessyPaints April theme is Catwoman! You have until May 1st to paint (digital or traditional Catwoman, lit from the side. If you made a web game for Ludum Dare 50, we’ll be featuring a bunch of those this week and archiving entries in our Ludum Dare 50 Collection. Hope everyone enjoys the update! We have another update coming to user pages this week, if all goes as planned. Voting on under judgment entries helps immensely to make sure everything gets seen. If you can’t support Newgrounds financially, you can still help out a lot by voting and reviewing! With everything going on this past weekend, I hadn’t noticed how backed up the Under Judgment list had gotten for games and movies. It hasn’t been easy to keep this going and we greatly appreciate all the support we can get! Every day there is cool new stuff to see on NG and lots of history to explore. You’re funding ongoing development and new features, to keep the site evolving and functioning. You’re preserving over 25 years of content, a lot of which only exists on NG. When you support Newgrounds, you’re keeping one of the last big independent websites on-line. Thank you everyone who has been supporting NG! had to update a lot of pages to support pentagon-shaped profile pictures and we thought it would be best to build something that works as a lasting feature. This feature came to us during development of our April Fools prank: Dankmen NFTs. ![]() To the right of your profile picture you’ll see a button for "Icon Options.” This will open up the tool to re-crop your picture and choose from a variety of shapes. To try this feature, become a Supporter and click Edit Profile on your profile page. Tired of feeling like a square peg in a round hole? Now you can be a square peg in a pentagon, hexagon, octagon, square, rhombus, heart or star hole, among others! You'll also get a color border based on the link color you've chosen on your user page. We just launched a new Supporter perk: Custom profile borders! ![]()
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