Reverse Definitions

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The study of how we form impressions of other people and make inferences about them

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Social perception

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The way in which people communicate intentionally or unintentionally without words nonverbal cues include facial expressions tone of voice jesters body position and movement to use a touch and Eye gaze

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Nonverbal communication

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To express or emit nonverbal behaviour such as smiling or patting someone on the back

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Encode

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To interpret the meaning of the nonverbal behaviour other people express such as deciding that a pat on the back was an expression of consideration and not kindness

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Decode

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A facial expression in which one part of the face registers one emotion well another part of the face for registers a different emotion

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Affect blend

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Culturally determined rules about which emotional expressions are appropriate to show

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Display rules

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Nonverbal gestures that have well understood definitions within a given culture they usually have direct verbal translation such as the OK sign

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Emblems

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A type of schema people used to group various kinds of personality traits together for example many people believe that if someone is kind she is generous as well

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Implicit personality theory

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A description of the way in which people explain the causes of their own and other people’s behaviour

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Attribution theory

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The inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about him or her such as his or her attitude and character or personality

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Internal attribution

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The inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something about the situation they are in, the assumption is that most people would respond the same way in that situation

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External attribution

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Information about the extent to which other people behave the same way as the actor does towards the same stimulus

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Consensus information

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The inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something about the situation he or she is in the assumption is that the most people would respond the same way in that situation

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External attribution

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Information about the extent to which other people behave the same way as the actor does towards the same stimulus

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Consensus information

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Information about the extent to which one particular actor behaves in the same way to different stimuli

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Distinctiveness information

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Information about the extent to which the behaviour between one actor and one stimulus is the same across time and circumstance

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Consistency information

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The tendency to infer that people’s behaviour corresponds to or matches their disposition (personality)

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Correspondence bias

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Information that is the focus of peoples attention people tend to overestimate the causal role of perceptually salient information

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Perceptual Salience

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Analyzing another person’s behaviour first by making an automatic internal attribution and only then thinking about possible situational reasons for the behaviour after which one may adjust the original internal attribution

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Two-step process of attribution