PSYCH 2C03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-6: Condom, Premarital Sex, Fundamental Attribution Error
8 Mar 2016
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Social perception: the study of how we form impressions of other people and make inferences about them. The way in which people communicate, intentionally or unintentionally, without words; nonverbal cues include facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures, body position and movement, the use of touch, and eye gaze. This is not only limited to members of our species. We automatically mimic other people"s facial expressions, and mirror neurons are neurons that respond when we preform an action and see someone else preform the same action. Encode: to express or emit nonverbal behaviour, such as smiling or patting someone on the back. Universal: anger, happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, sadness. There are a lot of experiments that challenge this and weakens its claim of universality. Decode: to interpret the meaning of the nonverbal behaviour other people express, such as deciding that a pat on the back was an expression of condescension and not kindness.
