Review Week 2

• Contact Codes-haptics an proxemics
• Visual Codes-oculesics and kinesics
• auditory codes-vocalics, tone, accent, stress, "you bastard" from last week yelling, or friendly
• time codes-chronemics, time centered communication

• The social construction of the body, what we do to change it
• A site for marking difference
• Every single detail you used this morning to manicure body (i.e chose to display tattoo or not
• body image and identity construction

o  David Beckam-poorly educated. Middle class, wealthiest and most globally recognized celebrity. Works with symbolic capital and cultural capital to make more money.

body as a canvas, but our face is a mask too.

Man tattooed as a tiger, ?What makes the examples of trekkies good or bad? What makes them a nice likeable character?

Almost none of us have a perfectly symmetrical face

Faces are incredibly important when showing emotions. More so than any other resource.

Universal displays

·      E.g. anger, surprise, disgust (culturally specific. We learn to read faces in subtle ways).

Smells unwittingly communicate things about us and we use smell deliberately to communicate:

·      Who we think we are, try to control smell about identity.

·      Our emotions, feelings, and attractions.

·      Smells determine whether interaction will be initiated, sustained, or terminated!

·      Works at the level of biology, psychology, culture

·      Rose oil-reduces blood pressure

·      Eucalyptus-increaes respiratory rate

·      Lemon-increased perceptions of health, when something smells like lemon we automatically think that it is cleaner than it is.

·      Lavendar- good mood, lower math scores

·      If beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, then smell is certainly in the mind of the smeller!

o  Unconscious avoidance responses and childhood memories

o  Sensor cells die after about 30-60 days. No physiological smell, anything beyond that is a memory.

o  Odor memory longer than any other kind. Remember smell memories longer than anything else.

Used in religion and rituals, insense burners.

Ancient medicinal uses>>C19th cosmetic uses>>contemporary aromatherapy uses

A symbol of civilization and status, cultural things, not nautral things.

Smell for our social identity, walk around room and make judgements about how people smell. If they are nice looking, clean, wear nice clothes they will smell good.

Used in religion and rituals, insense burners.

Ancient medicinal uses>>C19th cosmetic uses>>contemporary aromatherapy uses

A symbol of civilization and status, cultural things, not nautral things.

Smell for our social identity, walk around room and make judgements about how people smell. If they are nice looking, clean, wear nice clothes they will smell good. pheromones (sexual attraction fluids)

study #1 ? Immune system

Perfume industry uses sex to market their perfumes

?If you could take away our fears of being close, of being unclean, of being unattractive, we could eliminate an entire industry founded upon smell. Abne Eisenburce, Pace University

1997-10 billion dollars worldwide through sale of perfumes

Making s(cents) selling and commerce- Tag Commercial.

study #2 ? Immunogenetics

Studied peoples natural phernomes and the perfume that they use. Found exactly the same effect as before. The smells that they like are usually smells that remind them of an ex-partner. We are attracted to the scents of past partners that had different immune systems.

Do we have judgments on people depending on how much perfume people were wearing

Wanted to see if there was a relationship between the amount of perfume related to attractiveness and competence (smart of stupid) People will judge if you are smart and attractive

Set up a study no perfume>low use> high use

Physical attraction was at its highest with low perfume use

Study also found that the judgment of competence was at its highest with people who wore no perfume.