Ch 4 Perceiving Persons Part 1 Fri Sept 16 2011 Social Perception Get info from people situations behavior We make quick 1st impressions of people Attempt to read traits from faces Baby faced vs mature features Is there an evolutionary need Situations Scripts Situations Behavior Use situational cues to interpret behavior Behavior social perception Derive meaning from physical behavior Includes nonverbal behavior 6 primary universal emotions what are they Facial expressions across cultures results Matsumoto s research results Nonverbal Behavior Importance of eye contact touch Interpretation of avoiding eye contact Differences in nonverbal cues across cultures Examples Detecting Deception Can we use this info to detect deception Facial versus body movements What leads to better accuracy Not much better than 50 50 chance see Table 4 2 in book Microexpression Research Paul Ekman What are microexpressions Examples of contempt disgust Apply to security screening situations how do these work High cognitive effort tasks Strategic disclosure Attributions Attribution explanation about a behavior Heider personal vs situational Attribution theories 1 Jones Correspondent Inference theory Infer from action 1 Did the person have a choice 2 Was the behavior expected 3 How many positive effects were there
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