SOCB43H3 Lecture Notes - Social Evolution, Rush Hour, Wilhelm Wundt
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Social psych"s aim: is to understand how our mental self is the product of people"s interactions and relationships. We have the minimal ability to make and understand a gesture (movements of the first organism calling/ evoke responses by the second organism. Famous example of dogs: 1 dog is just drinking, 2nd dog barks and provokes a different attitude and make a different response of the 1st dog due to the gesture. Example- if you bark at a dog, the dog will bark back. If you bark at a human, the human may or may not bark back. It all depends on the human"s decision to the symbol. Conversation of gestures: movements without words, back and forth process, whole relationship is taking place. Example- boxing/ martial arts has a lot of interaction that happens even before you hit the person (not significant gestures since they don"t require a lot of thought)
