PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Fallacy, Radix, Fundamental Attribution Error
1 May 2014
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Nonverbal behavior and emotions: nonverbal behavior: behavior that reveals a person"s feelings without words, through facial expressions, body language ( depressed people), and vocal cues ( the tone of voice) 22,000 participants from 42 countries showed that people can pick up the emotion of others (it is universal and evolutionary adaptive: video: blind vs. regular people showed exact same facials expression in the olympics. It seems to suggest that it is innate biological program. Emotions as adaptations: the anger superiority effect: anger is superior in our perception. (people much more likely to pick anger faces in crowd. Stay focused on that angry faced it is because it is adaptive. You want to be ready if he is pissed. : the disease avoidance hypothesis: the emotion of disgust is a hypothesized to be adaptation that serves as a defense against microbial attacks. Apple juice given in pee pan not going to drink it.
