In the journal article When Familiarity Breeds Accuracy: Cultural Exposure and Facial Emotion Recognition by Hillary Anger Elfenbein and Nalini Ambady, they discuss an experiment in which photographs of American and Chinese individuals show different types of facial expressions expressions that outline their current emotional state were presented to American and Chinese judges. “…Photographs of American facial expression were judged more accurately and quickly than photographs of Chinese facial expression. This is likely due to differences in the methods used by researchers to create these sets of stimulus materials. While Ekman and Friesen (1976) created their American photographs with the aim of portraying intense versions of prototypical facial expressions that were highly recognisable, in contrast Wang and Markham (1999) created their Chinese photographs with the aim of eliciting facial expressions appropriate to the situation that would be relatively natural. These differences in the method of posing facial expressions probably led to American expressions being more intense but less authentic than Chinese ones…. These factors likely contributed to the main effects in our study, in which American photographs were generally recognized better than Chinese ones” (Elfenbein & Ambady, 2003). Photographs of the Chinese people's facial expressions were presented to the Chinese judges and photographs of the Chinese people's facial expressions were presented to the Chinese judges. The Americans were introduced to the American judges. The result was that American judges had a higher rate of recognizing emotions through facial expressions than Chinese judges. This could go back to the cultural background of each group and how it influenced their behavior… halfway through the paper… that there is some sort of hierarchy within countries, and they somehow happen to sit at the top of that vigorous pyramid. The third and probably most well-known quality of American culture is the influence that the population receives from the media. The United States has the largest and most diverse set of outlets that provide people with a large number of different types of entertainment. This creation of melodramatic entertainment has created a kind of illusion in some of those who spend more time in front of the television than others. Although to be fair, even though this trend may have started in the US, any country with decent and superior satellite and Internet coverage has that separate group of individuals who are extremely influenced by entertainment and fictional stories that detach them from the reality. and alienated from the rest of the community.