PSYC 2606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lie Detection, Display Rules, Middle Ages
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Facial deception- using your face to lie: we"re bad because we blink and fake smiles, masking- hiding true emotion with expression. Display rules- cultural rules that dictate the appropriate conditions for displaying emotions. Society"s way of telling us when to and when not to show certain emotions: ex: in american culture you are not to laugh at a funeral. Study of disgust in uc berkely and university of tokyo -> showed them gross videos. Uc berkley students continued to show disgust even after a man in a lab coat showed up. U of tokyo students withheld from showing disgust in front of the new person because in their culture it is inappropriate even rude to show disgust publicly. Eckman and o"sullivan (1991)- lie detection with law-enforcement personnel: researchers believe that law-enforcement personnel get lied to the most. They all watched videos of people telling a story about an event that happened in their life.
