COMM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Communication Accommodation Theory, Nonverbal Communication

• School: CSULB
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 110
• Professor: stacyyoungthompson

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What you do speaks so loudly that i cannot hear what you say -ralph waldo emerson. Primary way we communicate our feelings and attitudes ( leaking ) More believable/ carries more weight than verbal messages. When we act like other, we think that people will think that we fit in with them, they think that you gonna have the same beliefs, values that they have, they assume that we are like them. Tend to require more space around them. Use more expansive gestures (gestures are more to the side of the body) Use their voices to communicate to greater range of emotions (vocal variety) Lower status person tends to behave more like a women and high status person tends to behave like a man. Research findings (people who give more eye contact are more confident, competent, caring) Resting face (bitch face)= should be approachable.