Social Actions
An action that seems inappropriate for the social situation
What is Unexpected Behavior?
These are types of questions you should ask.
What are W/Q questions?
Show "Happy"
Smiling, wide eyes
Taking information you already know and making an educated assumption based on that information.
What is a Smart Guess?
When you use your eyes, ears, brain, mouth, and body to pay attention to someone.
What is Whole Body Listening?
Rules that people know without being told
What are Hidden Rules?
This is a style of conversation that is back and forth.
What is a Ping-Pong Conversation?
Show "Sadness"
Frowning, tears, looking down
When you learn information about a friend and you keep that information in your brain to use next time you see that friend again.
What are Friend Files?
How close you can get to someone else during a social interaction.
What is Body Proximity?
An action that seems appropriate for the social situation.
What is Expected Behavior?
This is how you get someone's attention to start a conversation.
What is a greeting?
Show "Anger"
Eyebrows caved in, facial muscles tense
Understanding that problems differ in severity so you can react appropriately to this problems.
What is a tiny problem vs. a big problem?
When you are talking to someone and you can read someone else's possible thoughts, emotions or intentions based on how another person might be looking
What is Thinking with Your Eyes?
When a person makes choices that are expected from for that social situation.
What is Social Fortune?
This is a brief conversation you may have with someone.
What is Small Talk?
mouth wide open, eyebrows raised
Making a guess when you have absolutely no information to help you figure out what it should be.
What is a Wacky Guess?
It is a step of communication where you think about the other person and use conversation strategies to get talk to them.
What is Using Your Brain to Think About Others?
When a person makes choices that are unexpected for the social situation.
What is Social Fate?
When you are are talking to someone for awhile and you have a different topic you want to talk about.
What is Changing the Conversation?
This is how we know what other people are feeling.
What is looking at people's body language and their facial expressions?
Showing interest in someone else's topic that you don't find super interesting.
What is a Social Faker (or Fake it Until You Make It)?
Thinking about what the person does in a social situation, what kinds of feelings the others have about what the person did, and how the others treated the person based on the person's feelings.
Social Situation Mapping