emotions

• we can read nonverbal cues (facial expressions, tone of voice, hand gestures)
• Duchenne smile: a natural smile; briefer, fade less abruptly
• display rules: cultural rules governing; how and when a person may express emotion
• empathy: you identify with others and imagine what it must be like to walk in their shoes; females are more likely to express empathy
• emotion- detecting radar: Arne Ohman found people more speedily detect an angry face a happy one
• basic expressions are universal
• facial feedback effect: (Elkmon) the tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, and happiness
• behavior feedback phenomenon: you can duplicate an expression (ex. laugh and you'll start feeling better)
• behavioral medicine: integrating behavioral and medical knowledge
• health psychology: subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine
• emblems: many vary across cultures (ex. flipping someone off)