COM ARTS 260 Study Guide - Role Theory, Natural Selection, Social Influence
30 Oct 2014
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Eye contact: monitor effect of our communication, shows we are attending to what is going on, amount varies for each individual facial expressions, arrangement of facial muscles to communicate emotional states, convey 6 basic emotions. Gestures: how something is said pitch, volume, rate, quality of tone. Every message has two things: content and relation. Relation: implied message: ex: car barrowing example. One-up : indicating a desire to control or limit the actions of others. One-down : a desire to give up one s freedom in the conversation (ex: by agreeing) Assess effects of vocal cues on judgments of dominance in an influence context. Argue that during the course of evolutionary history, certain vocal cues became associated with dominance because they serve as markers of the organism s aggressive potential. Use of machines to judge sound characteristics. Good attention to multiple vocal cues: amplitude, pitch. Great use of control variables: speech rate, control of content dominance, control of visual dominance.
