PSYC18H3 Chapter 4: Chapter 4 Textbook
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a layered and varied language by which women and men negotiate romantic inclinations. the communication of emotion is central to play, grieving, arguing, soothing, status negotiation, persuasion, and socialization. people express emotions with facial actions, with their voice, with touch, with posture, and with their gait. often single words like smile fail adequately to describe the language of nonverbal communication. five categories of nonverbal communication: emblems: nonverbal gestures that directly translate to words. e. g. hand signs: i l lustrator: nonverbal gesture that accompanies our speech and often makes it vivid and visual. e. g. hand gestures when we speak: regulators: nonverbal behaviors that we use to coordinate conversion. e. g. orientation of their bodies toward people whom they wish to start speaking: self-adaptor: nervous behaviors people engage in with no seeming intention, as if simply to release nervous energy.
