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Ch 4: Perceiving Persons

Ch 4: Perceiving Persons. Part 1: Feb. 9, 2012. Social Perception. Get info from people, situations, & behavior We make quick 1 st impressions of people Attempt to read traits from faces Baby-faced vs. mature features Is there an evolutionary need? Situations – Scripts.

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Ch 4: Perceiving Persons

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  1. Ch 4: Perceiving Persons Part 1: Feb. 9, 2012

  2. 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

  3. 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?

  4. Face Recognition & Emotion • Evoluationary value to quick recognition • Angry faces? • Attentional blink = how does it work? • What are exceptions?

  5. Nonverbal Behavior • Importance of eye contact & touch • Interpretation of avoiding eye contact? • Differences in nonverbal cues across cultures • Examples?

  6. 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

  7. Microexpression Research • Paul Ekman’s research: • What are microexpressions? • Examples of contempt, disgust… • Apply to security screening situations - how do these work? • High cognitive effort tasks

  8. Attributions • Attribution = explanation about a behavior • Heider – personal vs. situational • Attribution theories: • 1. Jones – Correspondent Inference theory: • Infer from action - what give the most info about the person? • Did the person have a choice? • Was the behavior expected? • How many positive effects were there?

  9. Attribution theories (cont.) • 2) Kelly’s Covariation theory: • Attribute behavior to internal (person) or external (situation) based on 3 questions – • 1. Consensus • 2. Distinctiveness • 3. Consistency • See fig 4.4

  10. If low distinctiveness & low consensus, but high consistency, which attribution? • Example? • If high distinctiveness & high consensus, but low consistency, which attribution? • Example?

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