Psychology 2070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Nonverbal Communication, Wrinkle, Cognitive Load

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Graeme Haynes

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Social perception how we form impressions of others and make inferences about them. Nonverbal behaviour: form initial impressions based on facial appearance (those with baby faces perceived as warm, submissive and perhaps na ve/childlike, found that the more powerful candidates looked, the more likely thy were to win. Mimicry in facial muscles happens automatically, but the extent depends on gender and gender of the person they are with: e. g. women more likel(cid:455) to (cid:373)i(cid:373)i(cid:272) other people"s s(cid:373)iles (cid:894)(cid:373)a(cid:455) refle(cid:272)t e(cid:373)path(cid:455)(cid:895) All human beings encode/express nonverbal behaviour such as smiling or patting someone on the back in the same way. Humans can also decode/interpret these nonverbal behaviours with equal accuracy. Judgment of faces may also depend on there other faces present: study exposed ps to happy face and then a neutral face, the neutral face was perceived as sad. Study also measured the eye tracking movements of participants as they looked at the cartoons .