Psychology 1000 Chapter 11: PSYCHO1000, Ch 11

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: All

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Nonverbal behaviour: telling lies, pauses, not keeping eye contact. Nonverbal channels: paralanguage, noncontact aspects of speech, how they say something, tone of voice. Speed: we want an individual to speak at a moderate speed and at a high level - more persuasive, amplitude, rise time/fall time, hesitations and pauses. Some cultures don"t display a lot of emotions but when they do it looks the same as happiness in canada: women display emotion more than men in western society, there is cross-cultural consistency for emotions, body movements/position. "body language: kinesics: movement, posture, etc, gestures: hand signals, emblems: meaningful substances of hand signals. Someone was more likely to go fast through an intersection if their passenger is staring at them. Interpersonal distance: use of physical space, personal space, closeness - psychological intimacy thing and physical thing, 1. 25 m is acceptable personal space, 0. 5 m is intimacy.