PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Nonverbal Communication, Emotional Contagion, Impression Formation
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Psy220: chapter 3 social perception (lecture 2) Social perception: the process through which we seek to know and understand other people: all we can observe is others" outward appearances and overt behaviours, so perceiving them accurately is difficult, attribution: understanding the reason behind someone"s behaviour. Impression formation: how we form impressions of others. Impression management: how we ensure that these impressions are favourable. Nonverbal communication: the language of expressions, gazes, gestures. Nonverbal communication: the basic channels: facial expressions. Six basic emotions are represented clearly, and from an early age on the human face that are present throughout the human race anger, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise and disgust. Other findings may also suggest that contempt be another basic emotion. Although there are basic expression, there can be a large range of emotions with combinations. Our judgment of the meaning of these expressions are affected by various situational cues and the context in which the facial expressions occur.
