PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Critical Role, Fritz Heider
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How people bring together different impressions that they have of a person. Recall: (cid:862)the whole is (cid:374)ot e(cid:395)ual to the su(cid:373) of its pa(cid:396)ts(cid:863) Things that matter in perception: order of words (first impression is very important, certain words have strong meanings, context of other words. How do we come to the particular impressions: non-verbal behaviour. Facial expressions: there are six basic facial expressions: happy, angry, sad, surprise, disgust, and fear. Plays a critical role in detection of deception (in this case, non-verbal expressions play more critical roles than verbal expressions (people lie): micro facial expressions, inappropriate emotion, have to have high stakes, eliminates regular body language. Proposed that we make attributions to predict the world. K(cid:374)owi(cid:374)g people"s ge(cid:374)e(cid:396)al te(cid:374)de(cid:374)cies ca(cid:374) help figu(cid:396)e out what ki(cid:374)d of people they are. Developed by brunswick the perceiver shapes reality through the lens of their beliefs and preconceptions.