While much is known about how negative emotions are expressed in different modalities, our understanding of the nonverbal expressions of positive emotions remains limited. In the present research, we draw upon disparate lines of theoretical and empirical work on positive emotions, and systematically examine which channels are thought to be used for expressing four positive emotions: feeling moved, gratitude, interest, and triumph. Employing the intersubjective approach, an established method in cross-cultural psychology, we first explored how the four positive emotions were reported to be expressed in two North American community samples (Studies 1a and 1b: n = 1466). We next confirmed the cross-cultural generalizability of our findings by surveying respondents from ten countries that diverged on cultural values (Study 2: n = 1826). Feeling moved was thought to be signaled with facial expressions, gratitude with the use of words, interest with words, face and voice, and triumph with body posture, vocal cues, facial expressions, and words. These findings provide cross-culturally consistent findings of differential expressions across positive emotions. Notably, positive emotions were thought to be expressed via modalities that go beyond the face.

虽然人们对消极情绪如何以不同方式表达有很多了解，但我们对积极情绪的非语言表达的理解仍然有限。在目前的研究中，我们借鉴了关于积极情绪的不同理论和实证工作，并系统地研究了哪些渠道被认为用于表达四种积极情绪：感动、感激、兴趣和胜利。采用跨文化心理学中一种既定方法的主体间方法，我们首先探讨了四种积极情绪如何在两个北美社区样本中表达（研究 1a 和 1b：n = 1466）。接下来，我们通过对来自文化价值观存在分歧的十个国家的受访者进行调查，证实了我们发现的跨文化普遍性（研究 2：n  = 1826）。感动被认为是用面部表情表示的，用语言表达感激之情，用语言、面部和声音表示兴趣，用身体姿势、声音提示、面部表情和语言表示胜利。这些发现提供了跨文化一致的积极情绪差异表达的发现。值得注意的是，积极情绪被认为是通过超越面部的方式来表达的。