Psychology 2070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Fundamental Attribution Error, Constraint Algorithm, Fritz Heider

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Graeme Haynes

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Social perception: study of how we form impressions of other people and make inferences about them. Facial expressions, body movements, tone of voice. Culture and nonverbal communication: display rules, culturally determined rules about which emotional expressions are appropriate to show, men supposed to show anger, contempt disgust while women are supposed to show fear and powerless emotions. In japan, people hide wide smiles and hide their negative facial expressions. In india, judge fear and anger more unpleasantly than. Implicit personality theory: type of schema that people use to group various kinds of personality traits together. If someone is kind, they are generous as well. In western, there is an artistic personality while no such thing exists for chinese: for chinese there are some personalities that don"t exist in. Western: shi gu (worldly, devoted to family, social skills, benjamin whorf, the language people speak influences the way they think about the world.