CMN 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Expectancy Violations Theory, Social Distance, Proxemics
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Nonverbal communication (nvc) can replace or contradict (the way you say something may contradict with your nvc) the verbal message. Nvc body movements and vocal characteristics: body movements (includes gesture, space [distances], position, facial displays, eye gaze, touch, vocal behavior (includes pauses, response latency, loudness, talk duration, and speech rate) Nvc may be classified into two categories: given behavior (what you do it intentionally, given off behavior (what you do unintentionally) We think it might be more important than verbal communication: we almost always believe the nonverbal communication more than the verbal communication. We tend to trust nonverbal more than verbal cues even when both channels are presenting congruent information: mehrabian"s famous formula. Liking judgments = 0. 07 verbal + 0. 38 vocal + 0. 55 facial information. Emblem: gesture that can completely replace our use of words, specific to culture, are some that are universal, but mostly cultural specific.
