PSY331H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Ecological Validity, Stimulus Modality, Paul Ekman
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Discovered a layered and varied language of nonverbal behaviour by which women and men negotiate romantic inclinations. Recognition phase: women and men gaze at each other, singsong voice. Exploration phase: touch each other, pats on shoulder. Keeping-time phase: partners mirror each others glances, laughs, gaze. Communication of emotion is the grammar of our social life. Paul ekman and wallace friesen organized non verbal behaviour into five categories. A nonverbal gesture that accompanies our speech, to make it vivid, visual, or emphatic. Gestures slightly precede the corresponding words we say. Facial gestures to illustrate and dramatize our speech. Nonverbal behaviors that we use to coordinate conversation. Behaviors such as head nods, eyebrow flashes, encouraging vocalizations of interest. People look and point at an orient their bodies toward those they wish would start speaking. Look and turn away from those who they wish would stop speaking. Nervous behaviors that lack seeming intentions, as if simply to release nervous energy.
