CMN 2132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nonverbal Communication, Kinesics, Taste

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 2132
• Professor: Trevor Tucker

Document Summary

That aspects of the communication process that deals with the transmission and reception of messages that are not a part of the natural language systems. An elaborate code that is written nowhere, known to none, and understood by all . You may act one way with your girlfriend when out in public, but another way when not in public (context affects gestures) The more comfortable men are with their signi cant others, the less gestures. and vice versa with females, the gesture more when comfortable with their partner. Attention phase: a subconscious stage that everyone enters when they come into a room or situations (1st stage of irtation) Recognition: men often respond to the women moves. Dancing phase: self touching come into play, and then onto exploratory touching which is used to test the boundaries. Upon being comfortable with that they move onto the next and last phase. Synchronization phase: couples move into interactional synchrony.