PSYC 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Sigmund Freud, Impression Formation, Eye Contact

• School: American River College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 320
• Professor: Mitchell

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Situational scripts: enable us to anticipate the goals, behaviors, and likely outcomes in particular settings. An action seems to tell us more about someone"s personality when it departs from the norm for a situation. Nonverbal behavior: very revealing of inner states: facial expressions appear innate and understood worldwide, people can consistently recognize six facial expressions: happiness, fear, surprise, anger, sadness, disgust. In a princeton study participants judged whether a tennis player was feeling joy, loss, victory, or pain: now some photographs showed facial expressions only some showed. If his lips are silent, he cheats with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore sigmund freud. Look at the face, body, words, and the voice. Look at upper half of the face rather than the lower half of face to tell if someone is lying. False smile is a smile that doesn"t stretch up to the eye muscles.