Strengths In The Dumpster

Results of the experiment overwhelmingly supported the hypothesis. Particularly in the measurements of smiling. Male-female dyads showed extraordinarily higher frequencies of smiling during conversation than the other dyads. Both same gender dyads showed relatively marginal to moderate frequencies for smiling. Eye contact frequencies were also higher for male-female dyads, though not as overwhelmingly as smiling. In contrast, both same gender dyads showed relatively low frequencies for eye contact.

The Facial Feedback Hypothesis is the theory that if you portray an emotion on your face, such as a smile, that the following emotion is likely to occur internally (Nevid, 2015). For example If I were to have a grumpy or sad looking face my emotional state will be reflected by becoming angry, sad, or another emotion associated with the facial expression. Although, studies have shown that practicing smiling several times a day may help lift your spirits, this theory is not guaranteed to work every time (Nevid, 2015).

When most people think about a homeless man or a “bum”, words like drunk, addict, and lazy come to mind. These characteristics are true in some cases, but in others it’s just a way of stereotyping people, like the notion that blonde girls are dumb or Asians are bad drivers. In the two articles “On Dumpster Diving” by Lars Eighner and “The Lady in Red” by Richard Lemieux, Eighner provides for himself free of cost by dumpster diving, but Lemieux is simply at what most people would call “rock bottom” of his life at the time, so he resorts to begging people for money. These two men are not your typical drunk bums hanging out behind a dumpster, they are

The overall results collected by 257 students for each of the expression is roughly 2.8 for frown, 3.2 for neutral, and 3.9 for smile, each data at a statistically significant p-value of 0.001. This result disproves the norm of reciprocity theory in the hypothesis since a frown received a response closer to neutral.

Imagine living on the street. Wow that would be pretty hard and not very pleasant either. Many people won’t even know what to do. Most of them will be depressed and will give up on life. Lars Eighner who lived on the streets is totally different from other people who live on the street. Many of those people are dumb, strange, and always yell at other for no reasons. Society looks at these kids of people and think that they are not going to make it anywhere in life. Well appearance can be deceiving. Lars Eighner survived living on the streets because his characteristic was different from others. He was smart, moral, and a proud person who made his way through tough times.

Something so simple as a smile is much more complex than what meets the eye. In America’s culture we view smiling as a positive friendly feeling, but in many other cultures it’s actually the opposite. We view smiling as a form of respect and use it as a tool to help us either build or to repair relationships. One example of a “non-smiling” culture is Japan. Japanese culture values humility and so they tend to suppress their emotions in order to help build relationships with people. Another “non-smiling” country is Russia. In Russia, smiling is reserved for close friends and so smiling at strangers is viewed as being insincere. Therefore, the question at hand is why is smiling something that is so important in our culture? According to Mrs. Cunningham (par. 12) “Women are expected to smile no matter where they line up on the social, cultural, or economic

Non-verbals play an important role in rapport building too. Duchan (2011) found that affect attunement between therapist and client was critical to rapport building. Similarly, Duggan & Parrott (2006) revealed that physicians’ use of facial reinforcers, like nodding, was positively related with patient’s disclosures. In the video, other nonverbal aspects of rapport building like smiling, eye contact and mirroring are also observed. Non-verbals create a welcoming atmosphere for conversation and are crucial in monitoring the quality of communication. Incongruent verbal and nonverbal messages should be addressed by the physician (Barnett, 2001) and it becomes especially important to rapport building when communicating with young children (Fourie, et al., 2011) who may not articulate their ideas clearly; people from other cultures who might face a language barrier and the elderly who might be easily confused and forgetful.

That interview would make me feel very uncomfortable. Nonverbal enhancers may seem unimportant but it helps to build a better therapeutic relationship. I think eye contract is a good nonverbal enhancer, because I wouldn’t want my clients to think that I’m not paying attention to them. Physical closeness, posture, and warmth helps client’s to communicate and open up nonverbal invitation can definitely change the therapeutic helping into a positive relationship between me and my

Evidence: At the entrance to the classroom there is a mood board on the wall with the phase 'how do you feel today'. The board displays a variety of facial

Everywhere you go you see a smile; whether it is on a billboard or person they surround us. But how many of those are genuine smiles? In the essay Why Women Smile by Amy Cunningham it is stated that women are expected to smile at all times and often these smiles are artificial. What is in a smile? Could there be something in a smile’s physiology to help us better understand a person’s motives to smile? Possibly even health benefits. There is more behind a smile than a forced expression, smiles benefit us in several ways and they are real.

First impressions last a lifetime. When making a first impression an attractive smile conveys openness and confidence and inspires trust. When looking at a commercial and seeing someone with a bright beautiful smile, one is more likely to purchase the product he or she is selling or be more interested in what is being said. One's teeth are the center of the face and for the most part are the first thing that people see when they look at a person. In fact, “behavioral researchers have found that a smiling face is more likely to encourage cooperation from strangers during initial encounters” (Doyle 20). A smile can make or break a meeting, interview, or a first impression. Because of this, more people have started to see the positive effects

I learnt that people’s body language can show many things and give feedback can make clients feel you are listening to them.

In the United States, citizens can openly express their freedoms from freedom of speech to freedom of religion. Through the eyes of the founders, all Americans citizens are equal, and so it seems that all Americans deserve the same rights and opportunities. Yet, the United States emphasizes individualism, a belief that one is independent and self-reliant. They are motivated to compete with others to achieve what is known as the “American Dream.” According to that belief, if someone works hard, he or she will be able to climb the ladder of the social and economic class system. Because of its inability to evaluate people other than these classes, this system ultimately creates a divide between an upper class and lower class. Therefore, what strengths Americans hold such as the American Dream is also their weakness in creating one of the most devastating economic class disparity in the United States. One particular value, individualism, is the main contributor of the exhibition of American greatness and its downfall.

The debate over the motives for facial expressions includes the three factors of empathy, social cues and acclimatization. Neurosurgery research informs us that imitating facial expressions as well as showing facial expressions as social cues is how humans interact with one another. (Steubar, 2014). The purpose of this experiment is to show and use social cues, in the form of a smile, in two different social circumstances. This experiment was led in an indoor shopping mall and at a VFW during a billiards league. The shopping mall experiment is made up of strangers whereas the billiards league is made up of familiar people. This would be a naturalistic experiment to see if strangers or familiar faces mimic smiles. The hypothesis is that familiar faces would be more likely to mimic a smile than strangers. Familiar faces would show a more positive engagement, whereas strangers would be more likely to be negative. The prediction may be enough to support the hypothesis and gives light on the motives of social cues.

For this experiment, a single subject rated the happiness experienced when viewing an image of abstract art. The subject used a rating scale which used a sliding scale to denote happiness evoked by the art, or a lack thereof. The score given by the rating ranged from 100, indicating very much happiness from viewing the art, all the way down to 0, indicating that the art did not evoke happiness in the least. Three different conditions were tested, including a normal condition, in which no special instructions were given to the subject; a pen between the subject’s teeth condition, which mimicked smiling; and a pen between the subject’s lips, which did not use the same muscles as the smiling/pen in teeth condition. The subject was instructed to perform each of condition a total of 11 times (for a total of 33 trials altogether), but was not told why until after the trials were finished. This was done so as not to bias the subject in regards to any of the conditions. The experiment was designed to investigate if putting the subject’s face into a simulated smiling state would influence the judgment about the amount of happiness generated when viewing abstract art (Sage, 2016). There were three levels of the factor for this experiment. The independent variable, or factor, is the pen (e.g. no-pen, pen/teeth, pen/lips) and the dependent variable is the happiness rating given to each image of abstract art.