PSYC18H3 Chapter 4: Chapter 4
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People express emotions with facial actions, with their voice, with touch, with posture, with their gait. examples: peace sign, rubbing of one forefinger with other to say shame on you . emblems vary in their meaning across cultures (examples on page 86) Illustrator: a nonverbal gesture that accompanies our speech, often makes it vivid and visual. we make hand gestures most of the time when we speak. mcneill shown that these gestures slightly precede the corresponding words we say: regulators: nonverbal behaviours that we use to coordinate conversation. people look and point at and orient their bodies toward people whom they want to start speaking. They look and turn their bodies away from those they wish would stop speaking: self-adaptor: nervous behaviours people engage in with no seeming intention, as if simply to release nervous energy. people touch their necks, tug at their hair, jiggle their legs and stroke their chins.
