Does Alex's Self-Esteem Impact Their Warm and Extraverted Behavior?

, bad things happen to bad ______ Belief in a just world: a form of defensive attribution wherein ______ assume that bad things happen to bad ______ and good things happen to good ______

Victims of ______

Victims of ______/sexual assault

Defensive ______

Ps blamed the ______ in the viewing condition

Bias ______ Spot

O Alex achieves a B+ average across her courses. Alex has high (low) ______

O Chinese- and English-speaking participants were influenced by cultural 'implicit personality theories': Artistic personality (Western) and ______ (Chinese)

Activity #3: Describe at least one instance where you formed a first impression of someone. What cues did you use. Were you ______. How else could you have interpreted them.

O The inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about them, such as attitude, character, or ______

Covariation Model: A theory stating that to form an attribution about what caused a person’s behaviour, we systematically note the pattern between the presence (or absence) of possible causal factors and whether or not the ______ occurs

Three Types of information (Kelley, 1967): ______, Distinctiveness, Consistency. All three contribute to our attributions (simultaneously)

Topic 4 Overview of Topics: Social perception is the study of how we form impressions of other people and make inferences about them. We make assessments of others based on observable behaviour. Example: Why is this person smiling at you?

Social Perception and Cognition: Social perception relies on basic perceptual process and higher-level knowledge and inferences. Examples of misperception include perception of objects, motion, and color.

Non-Verbal Communication: Nonverbal communication refers to the ways in which people communicate, intentionally or unintentionally, without words. The most frequent forms include facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures, body position and movement, use of touch, and eye gaze.

______: We form initial impressions of others based on observable behavior and appearance.

Attribution theory and the fundamental attribution error: Attribution theory refers to how we explain the behavior of others. The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to attribute others' behavior to internal factors while ignoring situational factors.

______: Self-serving attributions are explanations we make for our own positive behaviors, while defensive attributions are explanations we make to protect ourselves from negative outcomes.

Serves many functions to communicate: o Emotions o Attitudes o Personality: extraversion and ______ (Riggio & Riggio, 2002)

Mimicry and empathy – social ______. o Mirror neurons Facial Expressions of Emotion

Two main processes for using facial expressions o Encoding: how we express or emit facial expressions o Decoding: interpretation of the meaning of others’ ______ behaviour

Are facial expressions ______. o Charles Darwin (1872): • • • • Emotions are discrete entities Emotions are not unique to humans Facial expressions are vestiges of once useful reactions Facial Expressions are universal

Are Facial Expressions ______. Ekman & Friesen (1971)

Later research suggested that there may be more than 6 ______ emotions o Contempt, pride, embarrassment, anxiety, shame, and guilt