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COM 312
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Communication
Undergraduate 3
03/07/2012

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The degree to which we perceive another person as someone with whom we would like to associate
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Attractiveness
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What is physical, social, and task
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3 types of attractiveness
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What is time period, culture, and individual taste?
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3 factors influencing the meaning of "physically attractive"
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  • Physical attractiveness is important at the beginning of the relationship during the DATING stage.
  • Knapp & Hall cites couples who became more attractive as they got to know them.
  • Couples whose physical attractiveness is mismatched leads to questions.
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Physical attractiveness and relationships
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We tend to select people who are similar to ourselves in terms of physical attractiveness. Usually, the other person is a little above our self-perceived attractiveness. We may want the best looking partner but when the reality sets in when dating. The idea of being "out of my league"
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The matching hypothesis
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The sharing of traits, similar beliefs and values, or ways of looking at the world.
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Homogamy
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Who mentioned that "speakers who are "clean" and "neat" in appearance will enhance the goodwill others may see in them?
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Aristotle
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What is Competence, Trustworthiness, and Dynamism?
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3 main components of credibility
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What Erving Goffman did?
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Studied the people's front. Used dramaturgy (people like actors in play). We put on a front to others when we perform life (work, go out, do things in public)
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What express clothing, sex, age, race, age, size, looks, posture, facial expression, bodily gestures, speech patterns, artifacts?
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Personal front
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Measuring facial features as a way to quantify "beauty" physical attractiveness. Equidistant features indicate.
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Facial Symmetry
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Why do we wear clothes and why do we wear the clothes we wear?
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Functions of clothing. We wear clothes for protection, disguise. We wear them because of status, group identification, role, occupation.
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According to studies, what is the artifact that represents intelligence?
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Eye glasses
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Body shape for men is V (ratio waist-hip .80 and .95

For women, it is slender ration .70

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Cultural ideals in the US
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Also known as "vocal phenomena". Not what we say but how we say it.
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Vocalics/Paralanguage
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Refers to the structure of speech flow and modification in : Intonation, Rhythm, and Loudness.
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Prosody
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  • Perceptions of others (emotions, personality)
  • Acoustic properties (speech rate, pitch, loudness)
  • Vocal characteristics (breathy, husky)
  • Other sounds and their meanings (laughing, crying, moaning, "um")
  • Extralinguistic phenomena (accents)
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How paralanguage is studied
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What represents Sex, Age, Social class/Status
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Vocal cues and 3 consistent characteristics
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What represents more fluency, faster rate, louder speech, more dynamic contrast, higher pitch, more variable pitch, and talk more?
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Vocal cues of extroversion (outgoingness)
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What is less expressive, lower pitch, slower pace, louder, and poorer enunciation?
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Voice qualities of the masculine voice
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More resonant, less monotonous, lower in pitch, "middling" values of pitch (not too high not too low) represents?
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Vocal cues of the attractive voice
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Better personality, less neurotic, more extroverded, open, warm, agreable, powerful, honest, and conscientious represents?
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Traits associated with "attractive voice" 
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"Flubs" or errors in speech
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Nonfluencies
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Tongue slips, stutter (begayer), repetition, and vocalized pause ("um" or "uh")
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4 types of nonfluencies "operationalized" by Sereno & Hawkins
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Subjects listened to an audiotape speech with either 0, 3, or 6 nonfluencies. Then rated the speaker on competence, trustworthiness, and dynamism. The result is that more nonfluencies = less competence, dynamism but not trustworthiness.
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Effects of nonfluencies on three dimensions of credibility (Sereno & Hawkins)
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The fancy word is Baby talk. High pitch, sing-song, slow, rhythmic, repetitive, simplified language.
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Motherese
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Recognizing emotion from the voice is more difficult. The voice is less effective than the face to judge people's rapport.
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Communicative emotion: Voice vs Face

Question: which is more accurate: Vocal cues or Facial cues?

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What do we recognize with anger, joy, and sadness?
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Emotions based on vocal cues
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  • Vocal variety in pitch, force, quality = better recall and comprehension
  • We can comprehend material when it presented at a faster rate than we might think.
  • Poor vocal quality affects perceptions of the speaker, but not retention. Example: Ben Stein as the boring teacher video
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Vocalics and learning
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  • The term from vocalics "nonsound"
  • To emphasize
  • To show favor/disfavor
  •  To reveal or hide something
  • To express emotion (anger, sadness, fear)
  • Deep thoughtfulness
  • Mental inactivity
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Uses of silence
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