PS200 Lecture Notes - Feminist Theory, Eye Contact, Interchannel
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The higher your stats, the more body postures that you are able to display socially. Familiarity and level of comfort also dictate body posture in social situations. Men have more relaxed body postures, women have more formalized, tense postures. Men have more verbal space than women. It is more acceptable for men to interrupt women than vice versa. Lower status people do more smiling than higher status people. Nancy chodorow first to look at how males and females are socialized differently (carol. Karen horney one of the first to come up with feminist theory. Kids younger than six may look like they"re lying because they cannot perceive more. Kids seven to ten are in concrete operational, they think that everything false is a bad lie. After eleven, kids are able to understand abstract thinking.