PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wrinkle, Psy, Ingroups And Outgroups
10 Dec 2020
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Behavioral cues are used not only to identify someone"s actions but also to determine his or her inner states. Knowing how another person is feeling can be tricky because people often try to hide their true emotions. For these reasons, we often tune in to the silent language of nonverbal behavior. Nonverbal behavior: behavior that reveals a person"s feelings without words through facial expressions, body language, and vocal cues. people can reliably identify at least six primary emotions: happiness, fear, sadness, anger, surprise, and disgust. More recently, shame, embarrassment, contempt, and compassion have been discussed as possible contenders for basic emotion" status, but it is still not clear if they are as readily recognized. To determine the extent to which emotions are universally recognized or culturally specific, Hillary elfenbein and nalini ambady (2002) meta-analyzed 97 studies involving a total of 22. Result: people all over the world are able to recognize the primary emotions from photographs of facial expressions.
