Though there is much diversity between cultures, everyone is human and many of the same ideas and thoughts are present in all cultures. Being this, they hypothesized a common relationship between cultures’ facial behaviors and their emotions no matter where the culture resides or what their living conditions are.

To prove the hypothesis made Ekman and Friesen conducted experiments where they showed photographs of faces representing certain emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust, interest) to people from different cultures. By showing the pictures to people from different cultures, Ekman and Friesen were able to determine whether the same facial behaviors would correlate with the same emotion, despite the cultures of the individuals.

The individuals first used were college educated subjects from Brazil, Japa

Anger: He (she) is angry; or he (she) is angry, about to fight.

Sadness: His (her) child (mother) has died, and he (she) feels very sad.

Disgust: He (she) is looking at something he (she) dislikes; or He (she) is looking at something which smells bad.

For the creation of the stories themselves, substantial attention was used to guarantee that each story was only related to one emotion. The stories used for each of the emotions were:

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