The Authors of Your Text Present a Study by Masuda

The authors of your text present a study by Masuda and his colleagues (2008) that examined cultural differences in social perception. They compared how participants perceived a central character when the surrounding characters in a picture either matched or mismatched the central character's facial expression. When the central and peripheral characters' expressions do not match, Japanese participants were most likely to

A) keep their judgments the same as it would be if the peripheral people's expressions matched.
B) think that the central character felt the opposite of the peripheral characters.
C) rate the central character more similarly to the peripheral characters.
D) rate all characters as being less emotional.