PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Lie Detection, Proxemics
31 Oct 2017
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Facial feedback hypothesis states that you are more likely to feel emotions that correspond to your facial features: supporting research, but could be due to classical conditioning. Many emotional expressions are nonverbal facial expressions, gestures, postures. Nonverbal leakage is often a powerful cue that we are trying to hide an emotion the unconscious spillover of emotion: very important to communication. Posture can communicate emotions, largely in unconscious ways. Gestures can also convey emotions, as through illustrators (emphasis) or manipulators (stress: pointing vs. rubbing our hands. Emblems are more culture-specific gestures: ok sign, waving, thumbs up. Proxemics is the study of personal space the farther we are from people, usually the less emotionally close four levels of distance: public, 12 feet, social, 4-12 feet, acquaintances, personal, 1. 5-4 ft friends intimate, 0-1. 5 ft. Moderate cultural and sex differences: romantic partners. Most ppl are not good at detecting lies.
