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Chapter.4 : Social Perception- Other people are not easy to figure out.
o We all have fundamental fascination with explaining other people’s behavior.
o Reasons why people behaves as they do are usually hidden from us.
▪ All we have to go on is observable behavior and rely on subtle cues and first
impressions.
o Our desire to understand others is so fundamental that it carries over into our hobbies and
recreational lives.
o We make conclusions/attribution about people and who we think they are and why they do
what they do which help understand motivations, choices, and behavior.
- Thinking about other individuals and their behavior helps understand and predict our social universe.
o Social Perception : study of how we form impressions of an make inferences about other
people.
, 4.1 : How do people use nonverbal cues to understand others ?
Nonverbal Communication
- Our nonverbal expressions provide other with a wealth of information about us.
o Nonverbal Communication : the way in which people communication without words which
include facial expressions, voice tones, gestures, body movement and position, use of touch,
and gaze.
▪ Nonverbal cues serve a variety of functions in community.
• Help express our emotions, attitudes, and personality and to perceives those
characteristics in others.
• You communicate your personality traits with gestures and frequent
changes in voice pitch and inflection.
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