CMN 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nonverbal Communication, Paralanguage, Kinesics
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Involves all messages other than words or language. Body movements: includes gesture, personal space (distance), position, facial displays, eye gaze, touch. Vocal behavior: includes pauses, response latency, loudness, talk duration, and speech rate. Also includes clothing: garments, devices, cosmetics, treatments. Tendency for nonverbal behavior to leak -- very hard to control of nonverbal behaviors. We think it might be more important than verbal communication. We tend to trust nonverbal more than verbal cues even when both channels are presenting congruent information. Mehrabian"s famous formula: our decision to like someone in a formula. Liking judgments = . 07 verbal behavior + . 38 vocal behavior +. 55 facial info. Emblems: direct or very clear definition (ok sign, middle finger)-- culturally specific. Illustrators: directly tied to the words being spoken ( the fish was this big ) Regulators: help manage the flow of conversation (one minute finger) Self (chewing nails, messing with hair, etc. ) or object adaptors (chewing on pen, messing with keys)
