In both online and offline interactions, the visual representation of people influences how others perceive them. In contrast to the offline body, an online visual representation of a person is consciously chosen and not stable. This paper reports the results of a 2 step examination of the influence of avatars on the person perception process. Specifically, this project examines the reliance on...

Individuals learn, or try to learn, about other people from observing them and analogizing what they see to their own bodily or kinesic knowledge. We watch (for example) the position of limbs and the movement of eyes. We react to evidence of different states of muscle tension. Artists make use of their own kinesic knowledge and count on our understanding of it. But body language does not always...

Nonverbal decoding refers to the act of recognizing and interpreting the meaning of other people’s nonverbal cues. Decoding skills vary depending on many factors such as personality and environment (Knapp & Hall, 2009). The present study focused on six individual difference measures (the EPI, IOS, PSI, SCS-R, 20-item Shyness Scale, and TSIS) and an experimentally manipulated variable of self-co...

s of invited lectures Workshop Proceedings Page 5 Abstracts of invited lectures SESSION ON PATHOGENESIS Chairs: Hugo Murua Escobar, Franco Guscetti 01 Comparative Transcriptional Analysis of Canine and Human Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL). Molecular Signatures of NF-κB Activation and Sub-Classification of DLBCL Ted Hupp Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom E-mai...

Though the scientific study of social class is over a century old, theories regarding how social class shapes psychological experience are in their infancy. In this review, we provide a road map for the empirical study of an emerging psychology of social class. Specifically, we outline key measurement issues in the study of social class – including the importance of both objective indicators an...

Mindsets Promote Sensitivity to Affect Clayton R. Critcher, University of California, Berkeley, USA* Melissa J. Ferguson, Cornell University, USA As a consumer peruses an ad for a cruise vacation, is his attention captured by the affect-rich depictions of tropical beaches, or does he focus on the less evocative details of the package? As a restaurant patron progresses down the buffet line, is s...

“Emotional expression is multifaceted – expression is determined both by a person’s reaction to an event and by the attempt to manipulate this expression for strategic reasons in social interaction.” (Scherer, 2001). In this paper we present some thoughts on the relation between emotion, facial expression and dialogue that have lead us to develop a model of dialogue in which the social views on...

Taiwanese participants made better-than-average judgments on collectivistic and individualistic traits, evaluated the personal importance of those traits, and completed measures of psychological adjustment (depression, perceived stress, subjective well being, and satisfaction with life). Replicating findings from other East Asian samples, participants self-enhanced (i.e., regarded the self as s...

Social interaction is pivotal to the formation of social relationships and groups. Much is known about the importance of interaction content (e.g., the transfer of information). The present review concentrates on the influence of the act of conversing on the emergence of a sense of solidarity, more or less independently of the content. Micro-characteristics of the conversation (e.g., brief sile...