PSY274H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Proxemics, Sclera, Hominidae
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Goal of lecture: to demonstrate how multimodalities can be used in human communication. Structure of topics: standing features of interaction, appearance, clothes, bodily adornment, broader aspects of "body language, proxemics, haptics, eyes and faces, attentional cueing and eye gaze, emotional expression, audiovisual integration in speech processing, hands, emblems, co-speech gesture. Standing features because they are static; stay the same over the course of a conversation. Status or wealth (person perceiving must recognize same features of clothes) 2: broader aspects of body language : proxemic, haptic (see ellis and beattie chapter) Proxemics: how far or close individuals are. Parameters for a given situation usually depends on cultural and social factors, although some individual-level variations. In humans, sclera surrounding pupil and iris lacks pigmentation; visible portion of eye is comparatively large for body size; easy to determine where in space pupil is aimed. Not true of other primates (gorillas: big body but small eyes and pigmented sclera)
