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

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

Document Summary

Social perception: the study of how we form impressions of other people and make inferences about them. Useful to elicit empathy: study: quebec conducted a electromyography: recording the movements of facial muscles showed that we automatically mimic other people"s facial expressions (happiness, sadness, disgust) Thus, one way we are able to emotionally connect w one another is through the activation of these mirror neurons. Facial expression of emotion: facial expression had longest history of research through: charles darwin (1972) book the expression of the emotions in man and animals. Primary emotions conveys by the face are universal all humans everywhere encode or express these emotions in the same way + all humans can decode with equal accuracy. From an evolutionary perspective: costs and benefits of perceiving anger + happiness would vary depending on whether the encoder was male or female : paul ekman + walter friesen, darwin was right!