People watching essay

Invariably, many of us turn to people watching to pass the time. Without even realizing it, perhaps, we decide whether those sharing our space—even temporarily—are smart or dumb, interesting or dull, and happy or anxious.

Some watch to try to unequivocally differentiate themselves while others experience a guilty, unconscious pleasure in identification and vicarious living. Write a topic sentence with a clear main idea at the end. Explain your main idea. Begin developing your main idea with specific details. Keep supporting your argument.

From body perception to action preparation: A distributed neural system for viewing bodily expressions of emotion. In K. L. Johnson, M. Shiffrar, K. L. Johnson, M. Shiffrar (Eds.) , People watching: Social, perceptual, and neurophysiological studies of body perception (pp. 350-368).

Tilburg University’s Beatrice de Gelder, in a chapter of this book, notes that we gain the most information about people, such as their emotional states, by watching their faces, but we also make judgments about them based on their bodily expressions of feeling.