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social psych
ch 4 perceiving persons
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
02/21/2010

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Phrenology
Definition
The art of judging human character from facial features.
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Physiognomy
Definition
The art of judging human character from facial features.
Term
social scripts influence social perceptions in two ways:
Definition
1. we see what we expect to see in a particular situation
ex. we interpret facial expressions by the way we think people should be feeling
2. people use what they know about social situations to explain the CAUSE of human behavior.

-you learn more about a person when they deviate from normative behavior
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nonverbal behavior
Definition
behavior that reveals feelings without using words- through body language and verbal cues like tone
Term
the 6 primary emotions
and about them....
Definition
happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, surprise, fear

these are cross cultural. anger and disgust are the most cross cultural.
the more life exposure to the culture, the greater accuracy with detection the emotions
-Darwin believe that the ability to recognize emotions in others has survival value for all members of a species
-disgust is helpful to recognize because of food poisoning. on the neural level, we experience disgust by watching anothers facial emotion of disgust.
Term
"anger superiority effect"
Definition
people are quicker to spot and slower to look away from the angry face in a crowd of neural faces.
-anger is universally seen
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