PSYCH 13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nonverbal Communication, Display Rules, Impression Formation
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Social perception: study of how we form impressions of and make inferences about other. Give a ton of info about us. Nonverbal communication: the way people communicate (intentionally or unintentionally) without words; nonverbal cues = facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures, body position and movement, the use of touch, and gaze. Encode: to express or emit nonverbal behavior. (ex) smiling or patting someone on the back. Decode: to interpret the meaning of the nonverbal behavior other people express. (ex) deciding whether the pat on the back was an expression of condescension and not kindness. Pride = cross-cultural (involves facial expression and body posture and gesture cues) Disgust = decreased perception, decreases sensory input. Why is decoding hard sometimes: people often display affect blends. Affect blends: facial expressions where one part of their face registers one emotion while another part of their face registers a different emotion: expression can have different implications based on context and other cues, culture.