Psychology 2070A/B Chapter 4: Social Perception
19 Oct 2017
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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. People tend to mimic the nonverbal behaviour of others. Mirror neurons respond when we perform an action and when we see someone else perform the same action. We have the capacity of mimicking people. W(cid:28674)(cid:28672)(cid:28664)(cid:28673) (cid:28660)(cid:28677)(cid:28664) (cid:28672)(cid:28674)(cid:28677)(cid:28664) (cid:28671)(cid:28668)(cid:28670)(cid:28664)(cid:28671)(cid:28684) (cid:28679)(cid:28674) (cid:28672)(cid:28668)(cid:28672)(cid:28668)(cid:28662) (cid:28674)(cid:28679)(cid:28667)(cid:28664)(cid:28677) (cid:28675)(cid:28664)(cid:28674)(cid:28675)(cid:28671)(cid:28664)"(cid:28678) (cid:28678)(cid:28672)(cid:28668)(cid:28671)(cid:28664)(cid:28678) linked to the concept of empathy feeling what others feel. T(cid:28664)(cid:28673)(cid:28663) (cid:28679)(cid:28674) (cid:28672)(cid:28668)(cid:28672)(cid:28668)(cid:28662) (cid:28672)(cid:28674)(cid:28677)(cid:28664) (cid:28682)(cid:28667)(cid:28664)(cid:28673) (cid:28682)(cid:28664)"(cid:28677)(cid:28664) (cid:28664)(cid:28672)(cid:28675)(cid:28660)(cid:28679)(cid:28667)(cid:28668)(cid:28685)(cid:28668)(cid:28673)(cid:28666) (cid:28682)(cid:28668)(cid:28679)(cid:28667) (cid:28660)(cid:28673)(cid:28674)(cid:28679)(cid:28667)(cid:28664)(cid:28677) (cid:28675)(cid:28664)(cid:28677)(cid:28678)(cid:28674)(cid:28673) Most universal expressions: happy, sad, angry, surprise, disgust, fear. Darwin believed that all humans encode these primary emotions in the same way, and all humans decode or interpret them with equal accuracy. Evolutionary perspective: accurate social perception ensures our survival. People are faster and more accurate to judge anger in a male face and happiness in a female face.
