Psychology 3139A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Sensemaking, Orbitofrontal Cortex, Grey Matter
10 Sep 2020
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A genuine smile involves muscles around the eye being activated: the mouth can do a fake smile. Deception: part of human nature, part of social dynamic. Network configuration: people in a network tend to come to a consensus, consensus is seen a small tight group and as you move out, you can consider it on a larger spectrum. Social networking sites also involves sharing news random. Invites you to share it: facebook trying to get rid of this, sometimes there"s fake news being spread but it looks like real news, as a herd to create collective belief, sense-making increased rumor belief. Information (misinformation: not unique to sns, we hear or see posts that for example say that vaccinations cure autism and a lot of people go and get vaccination shots. The importance of group: what motivates us online is group dynamic and shared reality, it"s not about information, it"s about the group.
