PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Conflict Theories, List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate, Authoritarian Personality
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People of all cultures have a universal need to form meaningful bonds with others, have intimate relationships, and belong to social groups. Person perception refers to the process of forming impressions of others. This includes judgements on appearance, attractiveness, personality traits, and recognition. Adults with a baby face: judged as warm, kind, naive, and submissive. Adults with mature features: judged as strong, worldly, and dominant. People across cultures tend to agree on their judgements of personality. Relatedly, americans believe smiling faces are more intelligent than neutral faces (opposite is true for japanese). => nonverbal cues probably exert powerful influences on the way we perceive others. Maybe because of limited experience with members of other groups (weak support): some research suggests that same-race and other-race faces may be perceived and classified differently. Extremely high correlations among the judge groups in their attractiveness ratings (across cultures), and the ratings by all groups correlated with the same facial characteristics.
