Psychology 2720A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Nonverbal Communication, Social Perception, Social Emotions

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Rachel Calogero

Document Summary

We rely on our impressions and theories, hoping they will lead to reasonably accurate and useful conclusions. Reality tv put people in unusual/difficult situations to intrigue the audience. Social perception: study of how we form impressions of others and make inferences about them. The more powerful the candidates looked, the more likely they were to win the election. Uses facial expressions, body movements and tone of voice to make inferences and judgements about an individual for social cognition and justification in our own minds. Able to read nonverbal cues of other species as well i. e. cats: dogs outperform chimpanzees in reading human non-verbal cues. Nonverbal communication: the way people communicate intentionally or unintentionally, without words, nonverbal cues include: voice tone, gesture, body position/movement, touch and eye gazes. Mirror neurons: used when we see something and when we perform something: fire automatically and involuntarily, a way for us to connect with each other emotionally.