PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Relative Deprivation, Physical Attractiveness, Facial Muscles
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Emotion: a response of the whole organism, involving: People can often detect nonverbal cues and threats, and signs of status. Nonthreatening cues more easily detected than deceiving expressions (more difficult to tell when people are lying. Tend to read emotional cues and detect emotion more easily and to be more empathetic than men. Wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s skill at de(cid:272)odi(cid:374)g othe(cid:396)s" e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s (cid:373)a(cid:455) also (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)i(cid:271)ute to thei(cid:396) g(cid:396)eate(cid:396) emotional responsiveness. People attribute female emotionality to disposition and male emotionality to circumstance this is social, not biological. Men and women do not differ in level emotions (self-reported), but women are a lot more expressive with their faces this is mostly taught. Gestures vary among cultures, but outward signs of emotions are generally the same. People u(cid:374)de(cid:396)sta(cid:374)d if it"s a sad o(cid:396) jo(cid:455)ful so(cid:374)g. Facial muscles speak a universal language for most basic emotions; interpreting faces in context is adaptive.
