Psychology 2070A/B Chapter 4: Chapter-4-Social-Perception

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Sarah Stanton

Document Summary

Chapter 4 social perception: study of how we form impressions of other people and make inferences about them. Functions of nonverbal cues in communication: help people express emotions, attitudes, personality, can substitute for verbal message, hand gestures, such as okay sign. Nonverbal communication: way in which people communicate, intentionally or unintentionally, without words, facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures, body position and movement, use of touch, eye gaze. Encode: express of emit nonverbal behaviour, such as smiling or patting someone on the back. Are facial expressions of emotion universal: not all emotion theorists have agreed with ekman"s conclusion that there are 6 or more universal facial expressions. Chile, argentina, japan, and new guinea, at least 82% of participants in each culture labelled their happiness facial expressions as such: fear expression identified by only 54% of participants in argentina and new guinea, 44% of new.