PSC 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bias Blind Spot, Dispositional Attribution, Confirmation Bias
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A confounding variable is something that varies systematically within an experiment. Random assignment takes care of nonsystemactic variation. A confound can give you an alternate explanation for your results. The only thing you want to vary systematically is your iv. Social perception: the study of how we form impressions of and make inferences about other people. Innate and shaped by natural selection: adaptive. Affect blends: one part of the face displays one emotion while another part of the face displays a different emotion. It"s not culturally accepted for men to cry: display rule: culturally determined rules about which nonverbal behaviors are appropriate to display. So why do we do this (nonverbal behavior): convey an attitude, express an emotion, communicate a personality. Encode: to express or emit nonverbal behavior (send) Only secret service agents do better than chance at lie detection (64%)
