Background: There is an ongoing discussion about emotional acumen. Ekman formed the concept of universal emotion perception of anger, surprise, disgust, enjoyment, fear, and sadness, but the power of arousal, and even facial attention can culturally differ. The role of cognition in emotion is crucial and due to culture-specific cognitive styles development, which encodes that the responses to the same content may differ.

Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate the cognitive factors which lead to cultural differences between power and the type of emotion elicited by the short fragment of Breadwinner (2017) directed by Nora Twomey and measured by PANAS and theme analysis