Psychology 2720A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Verbal Behavior, Lie Detection, Learned Helplessness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Mike Morrison

Document Summary

Social perception the study of how we form impressions of and inferences about other people. Body language and gestures: much of emotional expression is non verbal, primary uses of nonverbal behaviour; Substitution for verbal messages: non verbal behaviour. Gestures do the following: highlight speech (illustrators, involve touches of our bodies (manipulators, convey speci c meanings (emblems) Facial expressions are the most signi cant channel of non verbal communication: discrete emotions theory; Emotions as evolved expressions: theory that people experience a small number of distinct emotions. Serves an evolutionary function: primary emotions identi ed by ekman: Possibly pride: cultural di erences in emotional expression. The nding that certain emotions exist across most or all cultures doesn"t mean that cultures are identical in their emotional expressions. Display rules: cross cultural guidelines for how and when to express emotions. What we see in others: detecting deception: there are reliable nonverbal indicators of lying.