PSYCH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Carroll Izard
22 Sep 2020
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People can often detect nonverbal cues and threats, and sign of status. Nonthreatening cues more easily detected than deceiving expressions. Westerners: firm handshake: outgoing, expressive personality, gaze: intimacy, averted glance: submission, stare: dominance. Gestures, facial expressions, and voice tones are absent in written communications: in absence of expressive emotion, ambiguity can occur. It is important for us to interpret emotion correctly, we are social creatures and we want to interact and get along with others. Detecting emotion in others: people read a great deal of emotional content in the eye (the window to the soul) and the faces. Gender and emotional expression/detection: women seem to have greater and more complex emotional expression, women are also more skilled at detecting emotions in others, however, this is an overgeneralization. People tend to attribute women"s emotionally to their dispositions, and attribute men"s emotions to their circumstances. We also see some emotions as more male , changing our perception of a gender neutral face.
