Social Perception

CHAPTER 4 – SOCIAL PERCEPTION How do we come to understand other people? Our words tell only one part of the story. For this reason, most of the time we don’t satisfy with verbal communication and we try to facilitate our communication by non-verbal things. Nonverbal communication is important part of social perception. The way in which people communicate intentionally or unintentionally without words, nonverbal cues, signs include Facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures, body position and movement the use of touch and gaze. So it is important about how we make interspersions and inferences about other people and it can be either intentional or unintentional. If it is intentional we were aware that we are using that body position etc. But most of the time it is unintentional. So it is an important fnc in communication. How facial expressions affect us? You can understand by looking at my face that I am happy or hungry. The primary causes of nonverbal communication are * Expressing emotions(angry, happy, sad etc) * Conveying/expressing attitudes(I like you/I don’t like you) * Communicating ones personality traits (I am cheerful, warm, cold…) * Facilitating verbal communication So nonverbal communication has a great fnc in our perception of other people and giving our personality to other people. We can have also confusion in nonverbal communication because sometimes nonverbal and verbal communication can be conflicted. It is called “communication sarcasm” how? For example you may say someone that you like her however your facial expressions say another thing. In that case we should believe nonverbal. Nonverbal communication includes facial expressions. Facial expressions of emotions Human face is full off expressions. * Charles Darwin’s book; the expressions of the emotions in man and animals(1872) First and most important contribution of Darwins theory is that emotions expressed by