PSYC 260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Collectivism, Mirror Neuron, Fundamental Attribution Error
23 Oct 2017
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How we form impressions and make inferences about other people (extremely common human behavior) How people communicate, intentionally or unintentionally, without words. Mirror neurons: respond when we perform an action and when we see someone else perform the same action: facial expressions of emotion. 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 species- specific ( primary emotions conveyed by the face are universal) 6 universal facial expressions (ekman): surprise, happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, anger (contempt, pride, embarrassment, anxiety, shame, and guilt, are added after: cultural differences. East asian cultures: holistic thinker, focus on focal object and the context in which it is situated. Western: analytic thinkers, focusing on the central object and pay little attention to the context: decoding is sometimes inaccurate.
