Chapter 3: Nonverbal Communication

CHAPTER 3 Nonverbal Communication

You just think she ’s not saying anything right now
65% of communication nonverbal
All those messages that people exchange beyond the words themselves is nonverbal communication

Three characteristics
Sensitive to the relationship between sender and receiver
Meaning is based on context
Part of, not separate from, verbal communication

Sources
Neurological programs (reflexive)
Blinking
Sweaty palms
Cultural and intercultural behavior (reflective)
Modeling your surroundings from infancy
Cultures are persistent

Relationships between verbal and nonverbal communication

Categories of nonverbal communication

Kinesics
Fascics
Ocalics
Gestics
Haptics
Posture, walk, stance
Artifacts
Physical characteristics
Proxemics
Paravocalics
Chronemics
Olfatics
Aesthetics
Gustorics

Kinesics
Fascics

Kinesics
Ocalics

Kinesics
Gestics (speech independent vs. related)
Emblems
Illustrators
Affect displays
Regulators
Adapters

Kinesics
Haptics

Kinesics
Posture, walk, stance

Kinesics
Artifacts

Physical characteristics
Halo vs. Devil effect

Proxemics
Contact vs. non-contact cultures
Small group ecology

Paravocalics
Rate
Volume
Pitch
Pause
Stress

Chronemics
Circular time
Linear time
Technical time
Formal time
Informal time

Olfatics
Blindness
Adaptation
Memory
Overload
Discrimination

Aesthetics

Gustorics

Chapter 3: Nonverbal Communication

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