29 Facts About Nonverbal communication

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Nonverbal communication is the transmission of messages or signals through a nonverbal platform such as eye contact, facial expressions, gestures, posture, and body language.

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Study of nonverbal communication started in 1872 with the publication of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin.

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However, much of the study of nonverbal communication has focused on interaction between individuals, where it can be classified into three principal areas: environmental conditions where communication takes place, physical characteristics of the communicators, and behaviors of communicators during interaction.

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Nonverbal communication involves the conscious and unconscious processes of encoding and decoding.

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Nonverbal communication can portray a message both vocally and with the correct body signals or gestures.

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Children in these communities learn through observing and pitching in through which nonverbal communication is a key aspect of observation.

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Research on nonverbal communication rocketed during the mid-1960s by a number of psychologists and researchers.

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When someone wishes to avoid conflicting or embarrassing events during Nonverbal communication, it is considered proper and correct by the hypothesis to communicate attitudes towards others non-verbally instead of verbally.

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Speech-related gestures are used in parallel with verbal speech; this form of nonverbal communication is used to emphasize the message that is being communicated.

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Personal distance is still close but keeps another "at arm's length" and is considered the most comfortable distance for most of our interpersonal contact, while social distance is used for the kind of Nonverbal communication that occurs in business relationships and, sometimes, in the classroom.

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Nonverbal communication involves the conscious and unconscious processes of encoding and decoding.

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However the meanings in nonverbal communication are conveyed through the use of gesture, posture changes, and timing.

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The author states that nonverbal communication is very important to be aware of, especially if comparing gestures, gaze, and tone of voice amongst different cultures.

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Nonverbal communication is commonly used to facilitate learning in indigenous American communities.

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Nonverbal communication is pivotal for collaborative participation in shared activities, as children from indigenous American communities will learn how to interact using nonverbal communication by intently observing adults.

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Nonverbal communication allows for continuous keen observation and signals to the learner when participation is needed.

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The idea of "context-embeddedness" allows nonverbal communication to be a means of learning within Native American Alaskan Athabaskans and Cherokee communities.

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Nonverbal communication cues are used by most children in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation community within the parameters of their academic learning environments.

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Additional research expresses that eye contact is an important part of nonverbal communication involved in kinesics, as longer and appropriate levels of eye contact give an individual credibility.

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Haptics is the study of touching as nonverbal communication, and haptic communication refers to how people and other animals communicate via touching.

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Touches among humans that can be defined as Nonverbal communication include handshakes, holding hands, kissing, back slapping, high fives, a pat on the shoulder, and brushing an arm.

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Edward T Hall invented the term when he realized that culture influences how people use space in communication while working with diplomats, and published his findings on proxemics in 1959 as The Silent Language.

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When mixed messages occur, nonverbal communication becomes the primary tool people use to attain additional information to clarify the situation; great attention is placed on bodily movements and positioning when people perceive mixed messages during interactions.

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Definitions of nonverbal communication creates a limited picture in our minds but there are ways to create a clearer one.

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Nonverbal signals can be used without verbal communication to convey messages; when nonverbal behavior does not effectively communicate a message, verbal methods are used to enhance understanding.

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Verbal Nonverbal communication is a highly structured form of Nonverbal communication with set rules of grammar.

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The rules of verbal Nonverbal communication help to understand and make sense of what other people are saying.

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Verbal communication is based on discontinuous units whereas nonverbal communication is continuous.

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From 1977 to 2004, the influence of disease and drugs on receptivity of nonverbal communication was studied by teams at three separate medical schools using a similar paradigm.

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