Chapter 4
Social Psychology 2606 with King at University of Colorado Boulder
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social perception
process through which we seek to know and understand other people
EX: facial expressions indicating how that person feels
nonverbal communication
exchange of information based on facial expressions, eye contact, gestures, and body movement
EX:
encode
express or emit nonverbal behavior
EX: smiling or patting someone on the back
decode
interpret the meaning of nonverbal behavior by other people express
EX: patting someone on the back is an expression of condescension, not kindness
affect blend
facial expression which one part of the face registers one emotion while another part of the face registers a different emotion
EX:
display rules
cultural rules that dictate the appropriate conditions for displaying emotions
EX: do these pants make me look fat?
emblems
body movements with a highly specific meaning in given culture
EX: nodding vs shaking head
implicate personality theory
type of schema people use to group various kinds of personality traits together
EX: people who think someone is kind is also generous
attribution theory
a description of the way in which people explain the causes of their own and other people's behavior (the study of how we infer the causes of other people's behavior)
EX:
internal attribution
inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something about the person (attitude, character, personality)
EX:
external attribution
inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something about the situation they're in
EX:
covariation model
theory stating that to form an attribution about what caused a person's behavior, we systematically note the pattern between the presence or absence of possible causal factors and whether or not the behavior occurs
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consensus information
information about the extent to which other people behave toward the same stimulus as the actor does
EX:
distinctiveness information
information about the extent to which one particular actor behaved in the same way to different stimuli
EX:
consistency information
information about the extent to which the behavior between one actor and once stimulus is the same across time and circumstances
EX:
correspondence bias
tendency to infer that people's behavior corresponds to (matches) the disposition (personality)
EX:
perceptual salience
the seeming importance of information that is the focused of people's attention
EX:
two-step process of attribution
analyzing another person's behavior internal attribution and only then thinking about possible situational reasons for the behavior, after which one may adjust the original internal attribution
EX:
actor/observer difference
tendency to see other people's behavior as dispositionally caused but focusing more on the role of situational factors when explaining one's own behavior
EX:
self-serving attributions
explanation for one's successes that credit internal, dispositional factors and explanations for one's failures that blame external, situational factor
EX:
defensive attribution
explanations for behavior that avoid feelings of vulnerability and morality
EX:
belief in a just world
people get what they deserve and deserve what they get
(good things happen to good people, bad things happen to bad people)
EX:
6 facial emotions
-happiness
-sadness-
-surprise
-fear
-anger
-disgust
the expression of the emotions in Man and Animals
charles darwin (1872) was the first to study facial expressions
paul ekman
-the 6 facial expressions are universal
-10,000 anatomical combinations in facial muscles
micro-momentary expressions (MMS)
brief, contradictory facial expression of emotion (lasting about 1 to 1.5 seconds)
55
how many people are natural liars?
masking
hiding true emotions with expression
U.S. Secret Service
The only group that could accurately detect liars
body language
gestures, movements, and postures
females
which sex is more superior in the social use of cues and more effective at both reading adn transmitting unspoken messages?
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