PSYCH-225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Psych, Eye Contact
7 Jul 2020
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Social perception: how we come to understand other people. Nonverbal communication: the way in which people communicate, intentionally or unintentionally, without words, nonverbal cues without words; nonverbal cues include facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures, body position and movement, the use of touch and gaze. Social perception: the study of how we form impressions and make inferences about other people. Things like facial expressions, body posture, littler things like hair color or natural features of their body of faces. Encode: to express or emit nonverbal behavior such as smiling or patting someone on the back. Decode: to interpret the meaning of the nonverbal behavior other people express such as deciding that a pat on the back was an expression of condescension and not kindness. Darwin believed that facial expressions were vestiges of once useful physiological reactions. They were believed to be species specific and not culturally specific. Facial expressions of disgust and fear were completely the opposite of each other.
