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The human need for relationship consists of

belonging, connection, closeness

What underlies all other social motivations

the need for belonging

What does the mortality risk of social isolation compare to?

the mortality risk from cigarette smoking

Transcendent interactions are..

conversational experiences of immersion, connection, and discovery

Words are ___ (scott simon video)

innocent, neutral, and precise

unifying theory of 2+2

a storytelling principle developed by Pixar filmmaker Andrew Stanton, advising creators to "make the audience put things together". Instead of giving the audience the answer

What was wrong with the Bank Robber article?

the description of the robber was way too broad

Door experiment video

50% of people in the "door study" didn't notice when the person they were talking to was replaced by someone else holding after the door passed through

episotic

memory for personally experienced events

dispositional

internal personality traits

Dispositional interactions invove

perceptiveness, attentiveness, responiveness

3 Dimensions of interpersonal messages

Affection-Hostility, Dominate to submission, Involvement and non involvement

How many cues are there for interaction?

9

PONS test

assesses how well a person can interpret nonverbal messages

SAD fish =

Surprise, Anger, Disgust, Fear, interest, Sadness, happiness

How Factors of decoding emotions?

5

affect blends

facial expressions in which one part of the face registers one emotion while another part of the face registers a different emotion

Partial Blends

showing emotion in one part of face

leakage cues

unintended, often momentary nonverbal signs that leak our true feelings even when we think we are masking them

Deception Cues

Nonverbal behaviours that signal the untruthfulness of a verbal messages

Micro momentary expressions

rapid expressions of emotions

typicality effects

some emotions are more particular than others

witholder

inhibit expressions of emotions

Revealer

display expressions of emotions

Unwitting Expressor

the face unwillingly lets off expressions that the person does not realize are being shown

Blanked Expressor

The person is convinced an emotion is being portrayed, but others see only a blank face

Frozen affect

when someone shows the same emotion constantly

display rules for emotion

cultural rules specifying what emotions should and should not be expressed under what circumstances

What is Weiman's #1 skill domain?

empathy

empathy

the ability to understand and share the feelings of another

cognitive empathy

ability to take the perspective of others and to feel concern for others

Affective Empathy

the ability to experience another person's emotions

How many element's did weaver have?

3

empathetic responsiveness (weaver)

personally experiencing an emotional response that is parallel to the other person's actual or anticipated display of emotion

Perspective Taking

the ability to assume another person's perspective and understand his or her thoughts and feelings

sympathetic responsiveness

empathizing by feeling concern, compassion, or sorrow for another person because he or she is in a distressing situation

What was the summer camp study?

Two groups of kids. One group was placed in a summer camp for 5 days (experimental) with no electronics. the other was not.

What were the results of the summer camp study?

the experimental group gained ability to lead facial expressions.

emotional expressivity

the outward display of internal emotions through verbal and nonverbal cues like facial expressions, body language, and voice tone

Dispositional Involvement reflects

Perceptiveness
Attentiveness
Responsiveness

Interaction Involvemen

the extent to which an individual participates with another in conversation

Universality Hypothesis

all emotional expressions mean the same thing to all people in all places at all times

What are the 9 nonverbal indicants of interaction involvement

1 Closer interpersonal distance
2 Greater eye contact
3 more head nods
4 expressive facial behavior
5 Presence of backchannel cues
6 Greater vocal variety
7 Shorter speaker-turn latency
8 Spontaneous gestural activity
9 Shifting postures

How did Dunlap (1927) get "real" expressions?

Pain- bent fingers back
Surprise- shot a starter pistol
Sadness- told people their families died

Neidenthal's quote

"The ability to process facial expressions of emotion accurately is thus a social necessity... emotion processing is a requirement of successful social living"

Implications of Expressivity and Supression

1Life satisfaction
2 self esteem
3 social anhedonia
4 positive relations with others
5 interaction disruption
6 social impression formation
7 physiological well-being

Take-away points for decoding facial expressions of emotion

1- contextual and verbal cues may be as much, or more, important in identifying emotions than non verbal cues

2 encoding and decoding ability are correlated (but the correlation is not large)

3 women tend to have a decoding advantage

4 pleasant expressions tend to be recognized more accurately

5- ability develops with age

What are Greene's examples of value dimensions that distinguish cultures? (C11)

1- Individualism-collectivism
2 Masculine-feminine
3- high context - low context
4 High immediacy- low immediacy
5 High/low power distance
6 Monochromic- polychromic time orientation

What ability is a social necessity for a successful social living?

the ability to process facial expressions of emotion accurately