PSYCH 1XX3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: One Story, Microexpression, Selective Breeding
14 Sep 2016
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The brain will project activity as if looking at a face (when looking at a circle with 2 smaller circles and a line) Can extract emotions from inanimate objects that looks like a face. Configuration of burned toast may also look like a face. The brain is taking the stimulus that looks like a face and adding in extra details. People like to have big explanations for things that seem big. Scientists presented fictionous stories about an assassination of a leader: one story the person dies~people associate it with a conspiracy theory, one story the person doesn"t die~people associate an attempt at assassination. Our preference with faces may be due to: our experiences. Not necessarily the average of a face is what we find attractive; there may be other factors. Focuses on the features of a face. Fatcher effect: 2 faces inverted~ looks the same, the same 2 faces placed upright~ can identify the differences.
