
depending on the native language (Italian and American English)
of the subjects involved and the cultural context (American English
and Italian movies) associated to the stimuli. For example, for the
Italian subjects tested on the Italian stimuli, the combined audio/
video and the audio alone conditions conveyed the same amount of
emotional information (F
1,8
= .004,
ρ
= .95), while such information was
significantly different from the mute video and the combined audio/
video (F
1,8
= 10.414,
ρ
= .01) as well as from the mute video and the
audio alone (F
1,8
= 13.858,
ρ
= .005) conditions. This was not the case
for the American English subjects tested ...