PSYC 334 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Rejection, Display Rules, Linguistics

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 334
• Professor: Ryan Curtis

Document Summary

Every time something is encoded it must be decoded. Ex: my hair is in your machine, no the hare is a much larger mammal. Relation to schemas: hair was more accessible, whereas with wallace, hare was more accessible. Rejection sensitivity influencing an interpersonal gap: if you expect everyone to act angrily, you"re going to decode everything as a form of rejection. Involves all the things people do in interaction except for what they say. Verbal communication: what people say; the vocabulary, grammar, and syntax they use. Dude meant move, stop, don"t skip the line, pass it to me. Easy to decode even though all we hear is dude. People try to control these because of how informative they are. We try to alter them to show something besides how they authentically feel. Masking, actively replacing an expression you are feeling with one you are not feeling.