CS202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Kinesics, Proxemics
10 Aug 2014
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Hans was a rapid learner and soon progressed from counting to adding, multiplying, dividing, subtracting, and eventually solving problems involving factors and fractions: the experimenter, pfungst, had discovered that hans could answer a question only if something came in his visual field knew the answer and was attentive to the situation, when hans reached the correct number of taps, the onlookers would re lax and make a slight upward movement of their heads, which was hans"s signal m stop tapping, hans"s cleverness was not in his ability m verbalize or understand verbal c(cid:127) ommands but in his ability m respired m almost imperceptible and unconscious movements by those surrounding him, the story o(cid:127) f clever hans makes two important points regarding the role of nonverbal behavior in human encounters, while we are in the presence of another person, we are constantly giving signals about our attitudes, feelings, and personality, others may become particularly adept at sensing and interpreting these signals.
