Interperting the expressive behavior of others: The Interpersonal Perception Task

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 225-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Costanzo ◽  
Dane Archer
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Perception ◽  
Expressive Behavior ◽  
Perception Task

Social Anxiety and Performance in an Interpersonal Perception Task

1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 991-996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan E. Schroeder ◽  
Sandra M. Ketrow
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Communication Apprehension ◽  
Interpersonal Perception ◽  
Criterion Measure ◽  
Perception Task ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
And Performance

The Interpersonal Perception Task-15 videotape served as a criterion measure to test hypotheses about individual differences in interpersonal perception. 160 undergraduates completed the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension Scale, the Shyness and Sociability Scale, and the Interpersonal Perception Task-15. Scores on the Communication Apprehension Scale were negatively correlated with Interpersonal Perception Task-15 scores, as predicted. Scores on the Shyness scale were negatively correlated with scores on the Interpersonal Perception Task-15, while Sociability scale scores were positively correlated. These results underscore the association between social anxiety and interpersonal perception.

A Method for Teaching about Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

1991 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Costanzo ◽  
Dane Archer
Keyword(s):  
Nonverbal Communication ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Interpersonal Perception ◽  
Nonverbal Cues ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Objective Criterion ◽  
Instructional Techniques ◽  
Perception Task ◽  
Accurate Judgment

A method for teaching about verbal and nonverbal communication is described. The Interpersonal Perception Task (IPT) consists of a videotape of 30 brief scenes. Viewers answer interpretive questions by decoding the verbal and nonverbal cues in the scenes. Information is presented in all communication channels; several categories of interaction are represented; and for each scene, there is an objective criterion of accurate judgment. Instructional techniques using the IPT highlight the subtlety and complexity of communication cues, teach about specific cues to accuracy, demonstrate the relative importance of communication channels, and help students understand the process of interpretation.

Women’s Body Odor during Ovulation Improves Social Perception in Single Men

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (9) ◽  
pp. 653-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Oren ◽  
Simone G Shamay-Tsoory
Keyword(s):  
Social Perception ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Interpersonal Perception ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
High Fertility ◽  
Body Odor ◽  
Emotional Facial Expressions ◽  
Perception Task ◽  
Odor Cues ◽  
Single Men

Abstract Previous research has shown that men’s mating motivation may increase following exposure to women’s body odor during ovulation. In the current study, we examined whether exposure to women’s fertility odor cues influences social perception among men, while focusing on the role of men’s relationship status in moderating this reaction. We collected body odor samples from 43 women during ovulation and during the luteal phase and exposed 85 men to these odor samples while they performed an emotion recognition task and an interpersonal perception task. Single men were better at recognizing emotional facial expressions following exposure to odor cues of high fertility as compared with odor cues of low fertility. No such effect was identified in pair-bonded men. In support of this finding, single men became more accurate on the interpersonal perception task following exposure to odor cues of high fertility, while pair-bonded men became less accurate after such exposure. Collectively, the results suggest that exposure to women’s fertility odor cues improves social perception among single men, while it impairs such perception among pair-bonded men. We suggest that these effects may result from increased mating motivation following exposure to odor cues of fertility, which in turn encourages accurate social perception among single men while promoting an avoidant attitude toward social stimuli among pair-bonded men.

scholarly journals A scent of romance: human putative pheromone affects men’s sexual cognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 719-726
Author(s):  
Chen Oren ◽  
Leehe Peled-Avron ◽  
Simone G Shamay-Tsoory
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Emotional Reaction ◽  
Interpersonal Perception ◽  
Neural Systems ◽  
Control Solution ◽  
Perception Task ◽  
Human Functioning ◽  
Human Pheromone

Abstract Previous studies suggest that the putative human pheromone estratetraenol affects several systems underlying human functioning and appears to activate neural systems that are known to affect sexual behavior. In this study, we investigated whether exposure to estratetraenol affects men’s social cognition abilities. In the first experiment, men performed the Interpersonal Perception task while being exposed to estratetraenol and to a control solution. Men performed the task with better accuracy while being exposed to estratetraenol. This improvement was evident especially in the Intimacy category where participants evaluated romantic relationships. In a second experiment, we exposed a different sample of men to estratetraenol and to a control solution while performing a task that implicitly measured their emotional reaction to photos depicting two humans either romantically touching or not, with a control condition of two inanimate objects either touching or not. We found that the participants’ emotional reaction to touch was stronger under exposure to estratetraenol. Together, these results suggest that exposure to estratetraenol may trigger a change in men’s social cognition, especially in sexually related situations.

scholarly journals GENDER DIFFERENCES IN SOCIAL JUDGEMENTS RELATE TO SOCIAL EXPERIENCE ON THE JOB FOR OLDER ADULTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S305-S305
Author(s):  
Cassandra Richards ◽  
Jennifer T Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Emotion Perception ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Interpersonal Perception ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Social Judgments ◽  
Emotional Facial Expressions ◽  
Perception Task ◽  
Older Males

Abstract Older adults (OA) are worse than young adults (YA) at recognizing emotional facial expressions (Ruffman, Henry, Livingstone, & Phillips, 2008). In particular, age differences in anger recognition remain even when other emotions improve via additional context (e.g., Richter, Dietzel, & Kunzmann, 2011; Stanley & Isaacowitz, 2015). We investigated whether job experiences with greater social components would relate to better anger recognition and interpersonal perception in OA. We expected OA who held jobs with more social requirements would be better at anger recognition and interpersonal perception, but that this would differ by gender. OA (N=194) reported their present job and completed an emotion perception task and the Interpersonal Perception Task-15 (IPT-15; Costanzo & Archer, 1989). Ratings from the O*Net database were used to determine the degree of social requirements (0-100) for reported jobs. For older females, more social experience in their present job was related to better anger recognition (r =.45,p=.014). More face-to-face experience in the job held the longest was related to better overall emotion perception in older females (r=.20,p=.047). For older males, more social experience in their present job was related to worse anger recognition (r=-.45, p=.029). More coordination and leadership experience in the job held the longest was related to better interpersonal perception in older males (r =.28, p=.010). These results suggest gender is important when examining the degree to which social experience in the workplace relates to social judgments. Future work should investigate whether gender differences in subordinate vs leadership roles can account for these findings.

Under- and Over-Estimation

2011 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginie Crollen ◽  
Julie Castronovo ◽  
Xavier Seron
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Accurate Estimation ◽  
Numerical Estimation ◽  
Production Task ◽  
Estimation Task ◽  
Reproduction Task ◽  
Perception Task ◽  
Adult Participants ◽  
Mapping Hypothesis ◽  
Task Perception

Over the last 30 years, numerical estimation has been largely studied. Recently, Castronovo and Seron (2007) proposed the bi-directional mapping hypothesis in order to account for the finding that dependent on the type of estimation task (perception vs. production of numerosities), reverse patterns of performance are found (i.e., under- and over-estimation, respectively). Here, we further investigated this hypothesis by submitting adult participants to three types of numerical estimation task: (1) a perception task, in which participants had to estimate the numerosity of a non-symbolic collection; (2) a production task, in which participants had to approximately produce the numerosity of a symbolic numerical input; and (3) a reproduction task, in which participants had to reproduce the numerosity of a non-symbolic numerical input. Our results gave further support to the finding that different patterns of performance are found according to the type of estimation task: (1) under-estimation in the perception task; (2) over-estimation in the production task; and (3) accurate estimation in the reproduction task. Moreover, correlation analyses revealed that the more a participant under-estimated in the perception task, the more he/she over-estimated in the production task. We discussed these empirical data by showing how they can be accounted by the bi-directional mapping hypothesis ( Castronovo & Seron, 2007 ).

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