Module 37

Question 1

long gazes

Answer 1

stir affection/attraction between strangers

Question 2

proud, high status person facial expressions

Answer 2

arms raised, chest expanded, slight smile

Question 3

raising inner part of eyebrow

Answer 3

distress/worry; involuntary

Question 4

brows raised/pulled together

Answer 4

fear; involuntary

Question 5

real smile

Answer 5

raised cheeks and activated muscles; short; involuntary; perceived as trustworthy, authentic, and attractive

Question 6

fake smile

Answer 6

long, “frozen” smile

Question 7

introverts and reading emotions

Answer 7

excel at reading others’

Question 8

extroverts and reading emotions

Answer 8

easier to read

Question 9

Jerry Maguire effect

Answer 9

hearing a stranger say “hello” gives clues about personality

Question 10

written communication and emotion (tech and not tech)

Answer 10

lacks gestures, facial expressions, and voice tones; leads to less accurate interpretations; lead to the rise of emojis and egocentrism (failure to realize how someone interprets message)

Question 11

laughter

Answer 11

social; contagious (even if unsure of reason, will laugh or at least smile); hard to fake well; involuntary; hard to suppress; people laughed before language was developed (showed that they meant no harm); forms social bonds

Question 12

female advantage in emotion

Answer 12

surpass men at reading emotions; explains greater emotional literacy, responsiveness/openness, and expressiveness, explains common attribution of women’s emotionality to disposition and men’s to their circumstances; experience emotional events deeper and with more brain activation; remember scenes more than men

Question 13

empathy expression

Answer 13

women describe themselves and express it more than men; fiction readers report higher levels; explains why women read more fiction than men; can use feedback effects to increase by mimicking another’s expressions to feel what they feel, which shows how emotions can be contagious and create a ripple effect

Question 14

smiles

Answer 14

social; emotional; most long distance communicator; when smiling, will more quickly understand sentences with pleasant events

Question 15

individualist vs collectivist cultural expression of emotion

Answer 15

ind. show more emotion and more expression with mouth; coll. infer more emotion from context and show eyes with more expression

Question 16

facial feedback effect

Answer 16

(natural) facial muscle states trigger corresponding feelings; can control emotions by going through outward movements of said emotion; William James;

Question 17

behavior feedback effect

Answer 17

behavior influences our own and others’ thoughts, feelings, and actions