PSYC 308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Victim Blaming, Display Rules, Fundamental Attribution Error
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Social perception: the study of how we form impressions of other people and make inferences about them. Nonverbal communication: how people communicate intentionally or unintentionally without words. Examples: facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures, body position. Mirror neurons: brain cells that respond when we perform an action and when we see someone else perform the same action. Help us feel what other people are feeling. Every human being has the same primary emotions which are conveyed through the face; Every human being expresses or encodes in the same way as they decode or interprets them with equal accuracy. these emotions are species-specific and not culture specific. One part of face registers one emotion and the other part registers a different emotion. People try to appear less emotional than they are in certain situation. entails physiological arousal and responses as a result of stimuli both internally and externally: compel us to do things, often manifest in facial expressions.
