ey were shown a confrontation between two people and then were asked, “Who was the boss in that scene?” The people were asked to pair up in to twos and then were divided into two. Half of these people had to watch the videos with the sound turned off. These people had to pick up on body language. The other half of the participants were aloud to hear the videos, but they were also given an extra assignment. They were told to remember a shopping list. This list had items like three orange, or a half loaf of rye bread. The participants were not aloud to write the list down but they had to remember it throughout watching the video. After the video, they had to answer a questionnaire asked by their partners. By adding this extra objective the researchers were using memory task manipulation. This provided another analog to the cognitive demand on perceivers’ judgments in interaction. This proved to hinder their experiment because the conclusion of this experiment was that more is not always better when it comes to applying cognitive resources to social judgment. The resource also showed that women scored much higher then men, but it also showed that the groups that had partners that liked each other scored higher than the groups where the partners didn’t get along. I think that this research is just learn about how people use people perception to process verbal and nonverbal clues in every day society. The third article was about the fact that we don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are. It stated that past research demonstrated that the psychological state of observers’ influences how they view others. This influence was called “projection.” The current study explored projection in close relationships of cohabiting partners. In one study, structural equation modeling revealed significant components of projection when spouses reported the depressive symptoms of the...
