PSYCH 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Display Rules, Asperger Syndrome, Nonverbal Communication
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Most of us are obsessed with understanding the . People watching, reality tv, trashy magazines, social psychology. The process of how we form impressions of other people and how we make inferences about them. Personality, cause for behavior, what the person might do. Make sense of/understand what someone is doing. Verbal communication: communicate with words of specific sounds (e. g. nah-uh) Nonverbal communication: how people communicate, intentionally or unintentionally, without spoken or written language. Facial expressions, gestures, body position, movement, touch, gaze. Can convey messages and impact others but also impacts the messenger using the body position/movement (perception of self, hormones, emotions, e. g. power pose) Wasn"t just within us/western cultures, all displayed same way. Uses facial features but also includes head position. Pride tilts head up, contempt turn head sideways. Different because of thoughts and comparison of self to others. Affect blend - a mixing of multiple emotions of response.
