PSYC 3210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Ethnocentrism, Asian Americans, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Psychology 3210 chapter 14: culture and social behavior. Person perception and impression formation: we form many reliable impressions of people based on our perceptions, including judgments of appearance, attractiveness, personality traits, and even recognizing others, person perception: the process of forming impressions of others. Japanese trusted the faces with greater intensity in the smiling eyes. What are attributions, and where do they come from: attributions: beliefs about the underlying causes of behavior, all people of all cultures make attributions. Sex differences in preferred traits in a mate across cultures. Individualistic cultures were more likely to rate love as essential to the establishment of a marriage, and to agree that the disappearance of love is a sufficient reason to end a marriage. Culture and cooperation: cooperation: people"s ability to work together toward common goals, the size of the communities within which people live is positively associated with punishment the larger the communities, the greater the punishments.