CMN 2132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nonverbal Communication, Paralanguage, Proprioception

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 2132
• Professor: Sonia Gulati

Document Summary

Functional importance of nonverbal communication: concepts, theories, models, and debates. 55% of your emotions are expressed through your facial expressions (non verbal communication), 38% of emotions are expressed through your voice and the other 7% of your emotions are expressed verbally (words) Paralanguage in an important component that is involved with nonverbal communication. Things like your voice, accent, and the way you speak among many different things fall under paralanguage. Many researchers suggest that nonverbal communication accounts for nearly. 70% of what we communicate to one another. When we form impressions about people we engage in a whole lot of things the first one"s called the: 1)primacy effect: when you place heavy emphasis on the first pieces of information that we observe about another to form an impression. 2)regency effect: when you place heavy emphasis on the last form of information we form about someone and also the recent form of information we form about someone to form an impression.