Exam 4: Social Perception: How We Come to Understand Other People

Contempt is being considered for addition to the list of universal facial expressions. Based on the research presented in this chapter, argue for its inclusion.

Ekman and Friesen (1971) collected convincing evidence that facial expressions are universal. In their research, they studied

According to the authors of your text, how frequently should people make internal attributions to explain other people's behavior?

Nora has been blind since birth, and has never seen a smile, frown, or furrowed brow. At age three, how capable would she be of expressing emotions using the facial expressions of sighted people?

Sometimes so-called "self-serving attributions" in the face of a setback only look self-serving to others. This is because actors

One assumption of the covariation model is that people make causal attributions

In what sense are implicit personality theories a special kind of schema?

Hong and colleagues (2003) primed bicultural students with American, Chinese, or neutral images and had them make attributions about why a fish was swimming in front of other fish. What was the dependent variable of this experiment?

According to the authors of your text, people in ________ cultures tend to have an analytic thinking style.

One day, Professor Burns came into class and put his briefcase onto the desk in the front of the room. The desk promptly fell apart and the briefcase tumbled to the floor. Because of perceptual salience, what will students be most likely to think?

Recall that Roesch and Amirkham (1997) studied attributions for success and failure in athletes. Based on their findings, which of the following athletes would be most likely to make an external attribution for losing?

Recall that even when participants in an experiment conducted by Jones and Harris (1967) were told that people were assigned to write an essay sympathetic to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, they still were willing to assume that the essay reflected the writer's true "pro-Castro" attitudes. These findings illustrate

According to recent research, why does culture influence our tendency to make internal versus external attributions?

The authors of your text present a study by Masuda and his colleagues (2008) that examined cultural differences in social perception. They compared how participants perceived a central character when the surrounding characters in a picture either matched or mismatched the central character's facial expression. What implications does this study have for the idea of analytic and holistic thinking styles?

According to research conducted by Susskind and his colleagues (2008) presented by the authors of your text, when people make the facial expression of disgust, it involves

With the belief in the individual soul and the legal tradition of individual rights, Western cultures are ________ thinkers.

Imagine traveling to a country where you don't speak the native language. You just had a great meal. You don't want to be misunderstood, so how can you communicate to your host that the meal was great, and that you're happy?

On a visit to Australia, then-president George H.W. Bush offended the Australians when he flashed the two-fingered "peace sign" to a crowd. This is an example of how the use of ________, which vary from culture to culture, may lead to confusion or conflict if used outside of the user's culture.

Imagine you are asked to describe your friend for a dating site using a few words. Which of the following words will automatically get potential dates to think of your friend as generous and helpful?

Jessica smiles to convey that she is happy. Jessica's smile is a way of ________ the emotion of happiness.