1. Ch 4: Perceiving Persons Part 1: Fri. Sept. 16, 2011

2. 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

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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?