PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pluralistic Ignorance, Kinesics, Proxemics
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We can collect information firsthand, through direct experience. We have a tendency to trust firsthand information, but it can be misleading because . Almost instantaneously, we make snap judgments about people are like based on their fac. Use very little information to make our judgments. Process of using words, sounds, signs or behaviours to exchange or express information. The way in which people communicate, intentionally or unintentionally, without words. Kinesics (facial expressions, body movements), eye gaze, haptics, proxemics, v. Several factors influence the accuracy of secondhand information. We will talk more about secondhand information later. How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions. Searches for evidence that the unwanted thought is going to intrude on consciousn (i. e. you are about to think about it) Attempts to distract you by finding something else to think about.
