PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Communicative Action, Display Rules, Psy
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What is valence - whether or not a statement / communicative action is positive, negative, or neutral. Display rules kind of encourage us to lie". Morphology - structure, forms, looks of facial expressions (fake smiles) Symmetry - much harder for something like a fake smile to be symmetrical. If something like someone acts surprised for more than one second they. Your brain sees the lack of smoothness in communication but you don"t know it or see it yourself. There"s something in you that tells you someone is lying but we don"t know what it is. Microexpressions - facial expressions that happen when the person is trying to repress their emotion or emotional expression and they last for under a half of a second. Macro expressions - expressions you experience when you aren"t trying to hide and last for longer than half a second.