Psychology 2070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Paul Ekman, Nonverbal Communication, Mirror Neuron

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Erin Heerey

Document Summary

People are very interested in other people"s lives, and why they behave and react the way they do, helps us understand and predict our social world. Social perception: the study of how we form impressions of other people and make inferences about them. Research says we form initial impressions of others based just on their face in less than 100 milliseconds. Dogs outperform chimpanzees when it comes to reading human nonverbal cues. Nonverbal communication may play a role on eliciting empathy (tend to mimic people"s facial expressions) Mirror neurons respond when we perform an action and when we see someone else perform the same action. Researchers found that being disgusted by a smell and observing someone else"s facial expression of disgust activate the same parts of the brain. Encode: to express or emit nonverbal behavior, such as smiling or patting someone on the back.