PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psy
10 Dec 2020
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Leslie zebrowitz believes yes - that we associate infantile features with helplessness traits and then overgeneralize this expectation to baby-faced adults. She found in a recent brain-imaging study that the region of the brain that was activated by pictures of babies" faces was also activated by pictures of baby-faced men. Faces are seen as trustworthy if they look happy. Untrustworthy if they look angry, an emotion that signals danger to be avoided. In addition to the beliefs we hold about persons, each of us has preset notions about certain types of situations scripts that enable us to anticipate the goals, behaviors, and outcomes likely to occur in a particular setting. The more experience you have in a given situation, the more detail your scripts will contain. Roger axtell (1993) describes many scripts that are culture specific. In bolivia, dinner guests are expected to fully clean their plates to prove that they enjoyed the meal.
