PSY274H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Proxemics, Sclera, Bonobo
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Psy274 lecture 5 october 16, 2017. The modality of human communication: standing features of interactions, appearance, clothes, bodily adornment. They communicate through impressions that the receiver receives (during an interview) Is visible portion of our eye is comparatively larges for body size (compared to gorilla) Advantage only human eye gives easy information on where a person is looking. Cooperative eye hypothesis human eye evolved in a way that optimizes ability to track the gaze of others. Facial expressions/ emotion: surprise is the most brief emotion, charles claimed that all people possess the ability to express emotion in the same way. Nature, e. g. blind athletes make the same facial expressions: each emotion prepares the body for a specific action, f. a. c. t. s ways in which our facial muscles can move, set of basic emotions. Audiovisual integration in speech perception: the mcgurk effect. Shows the automatic synthesis of visual and auditory information.
