PSYB10H3 Chapter 4: Chapter 4 Social Perception
12 Oct 2011
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Paul ekman concluded that display rules are particular to each culture & dictate what kind of. In collectivist cultures, the expression of strong negative emotions is discouraged b/c to do so emotional expression people are supposed to show can disrupt group harmony own emblems. Eye contact & eye gaze are particularly powerful nonverbal cues. The most important pt of emblems is that they are not universal; each culture has devised its. Many studies that women are better at both decoding & encoding. While women have the ability to decode nonverbal cues of lying, they tend to turn off this skill in the face of deception, in polite deference to the speaker. Member of the society expect men & women to have certain attributes that are consistent with their role. Implicit personality theories: filling in the blanks the tendency of women to be nonverbally polite in this manner was especially strong in those.
