People often conceal their true emotions, making it difficult to interpret their feelings.
People are 9% more accurate at judging faces from their own national, ethnic, or regional groups than from less familiar groups.
Happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust.
They studied the 'first date' script among U.S. college students.
People react with aversion, often wrinkling their nose and raising their upper lip.
Face involves showing deference to higher status, while dignity emphasizes intrinsic value for all individuals.
People rated them more positively when they resembled a satisfying relationship partner.
It profoundly affects human behavior in the blink of an eye.
People accurately judged the intelligence of strangers based on hearing them read short sentences.
It draws and holds attention, increases arousal, and activates key social areas of the brain.
That they are evasive, cold, fearful, shy, or indifferent.
Angry faces can arouse us and cause us to frown, even when presented subliminally.
Behavioral cues used to identify a person's inner states without words.
Eye contact, smiling, nodding, and gesturing of a person in conversation.
It suggests that people may attribute human-like qualities to machines, enhancing trust and perception.
Preset notions about certain types of situations that help anticipate behaviors and outcomes.
Trustworthy, competent, likable, aggressive, and attractive.
To rate various human and nonhuman characters on their mental capacities such as pleasure, pain, and morality.
People are often slow to change their first impressions based on new information.
Dynamic angry faces capture attention more effectively than static angry faces.
First impressions are quick and highly correlated with judgments made without time limits.
The ability to recognize emotions, especially threatening ones like anger, has survival value for species.
The process by which people attribute humanlike mental states to various animate and inanimate objects, including other people.
Humans are programmed to respond gently to babyish features, leading to tender care for real babies.
They showed activation in a brain region associated with love and positive emotions when exposed to baby faces.
The insula is activated when participants sniff disgusting odors or watch others do so.
Smiling faces appear lighter and brighter, while frowning faces look darker, affecting our judgments.
Happiness, surprise, fear, sadness, anger, and disgust.
Eye contact norms can vary greatly, and understanding these differences is important for travel.
Participants reflecting on close relationships were less likely to attribute humanizing mental qualities to other people.
Leslie Zebrowitz believes we associate babyish features with helplessness and overgeneralize this expectation.
To fill the gap of nonverbal cues that clarify written communication.
Ratings from brief video clips correlated with clinical diagnoses of the inmates’ personality disorders.
People are quicker to spot and slower to look away from angry faces in a crowd compared to neutral or happy faces.
It leads us to expect certain behaviors in different contexts, like politeness in job interviews.
Context can change the interpretation of ambiguous expressions, such as seeing fear or happiness.
They interpreted scowls as fear in dangerous situations and determination in competitive contexts.
Ratings were highly correlated even at the briefest exposure times.
People are more likely to ascribe mind to those with whom they share a social connection than to distant others.
People cannot directly see others' motives or intentions, similar to how a detective reconstructs a crime.
To be nice to people, avoid eating fat, and read a good book every now and then.
Persons, situations, and behavior.
Participants from different countries exhibited high agreement in recognizing primary emotions.
Pythagoras and Hippocrates.
Individuals induced to fear social rejection and loneliness are quicker to recognize threatening emotions.
83%.
Knick-knacks in offices, identity claims on Facebook, books on shelves, and music on iPods.
Men and women are seen as more feminine when they speak in high-pitched voices.
They are seen as stronger, more dominant, and more competent.
Faces with welcoming smiles are easier to spot than other expressions.
That they express emotions in ways that are innate and understood globally.
Greater life exposure to Americans was associated with increased accuracy in recognizing emotions, from 60% among Chinese in China to 93% among non-Chinese Americans.
Sixteen steps.
They could organize dating events more quickly than those with less experience.
Participants who break events into fine units attend more closely, detect more meaningful actions, and remember more details than those who use gross units.
The processes by which people come to understand one another.
The link between baby-faced appearance and personal characteristics is seen in both Western cultures and among the Tsimané people in Bolivia.
They are more likely to see the vehicle as smart and capable of feeling, anticipating, and planning a route.
Based on thin slices of behavior, which matched assessments made by their parents.
Thin slices refer to small samples of expressive behavior used to make judgments about others.
Yes, studies show that brief samples can lead to accurate judgments of emotions.
People's personalities can be revealed through indirect cues.
Agency (ability to plan and execute behavior) and experience (capacity to feel sensations like pleasure and pain).
The NFL concluded that the balls were deflated and that quarterback Tom Brady probably knew about it, leading to his four-game suspension.
Recognizing what someone is doing at a given moment.
Some people break behavior into many fine units, while others into fewer larger units.
People are generally more accurate at judging the personalities of friends and acquaintances than of strangers.
He noted that they trigger a special nurturing response to cuteness.
In as little as one-tenth of a second.
They quickly judge them as more or less trustworthy based on facial features resembling happiness or anger.
As young as 3 and 4 years old.
Intuitive and efficient.
Different cultures have unique expectations, such as cleaning plates in Bolivia versus leaving food in India.
Reactions were mixed, with questions lingering about the credibility of his denial and varying opinions from Patriots fans and fans of opposing teams.
Context is crucial for accurately interpreting emotions, as her expression changed from anger to joy when viewed in context.
Height, weight, skin color, hair color, tattoos, piercings, eyeglasses, and other features.
The Patriots were accused of deflating footballs to make them easier to grip and pass, referred to as 'Deflategate.'
1. Raw data of social perception (persons, situations, behaviors), 2. Explanation and analysis of behavior, 3. Integration of observations into coherent impressions, 4. Distortions in impressions and self-fulfilling prophecies.
They are more likely to favor them in cases of intentional wrongdoing but rule against them in negligence cases.
Frequent eye contact can elicit positive impressions in friendly relationships and negative impressions in unfriendly ones.
The more 'mind' respondents attribute to a character, the more they liked it and wanted to make it happy or rescue it.
They can identify actions like walking and running even in dark settings with point lights.
The idea that our expectations can influence others to behave in ways that confirm those expectations.
They were judged to be less popular and less intelligent than those with younger-generation names.
Warmth, kindness, naivety, weakness, honesty, and submissiveness.
