Chapter 6 Non Verbal Communication

Chapter 6
Key Topics:
1) Introduction
2) Functions of nonverbal communication
3) Channels of nonverbal communication
4) Culture and nonverbal communication

Nonverbal communication
is communication without words including gestures, touch, raising your voice, even to the clothes you wear, how you smell…

The ability to use nonverbal communication effectively yields two benefits:

1. The greater your ability to send and receive nonverbal signals, the higher your attraction, popularity, and psychological well-being are likely to be

2. The greater your nonverbal skills, the more successful you’re likely to be at influencing others 

Functions include:

1.Integrating Nonverbal and Verbal Messages

2.Forming and Managing Impressions

3.Defining Relationships

4.Structuring Conversation

5.Influencing and Deceiving

6.Expressing Emotions

In conversation, we give and receive CUES that we’re ready to speak, listen, or comment on what the speaker just said. 
These turn taking CUES may be verbal (e.g. “What do you think?”)

Body Movements – researchers identify five major types of body movements

1.emblems

2.Illustrators

3.Regulators

4.affect displays

5.adaptors

4 Proxemic Distances:

-intimate

-personal

-social

-public

2) Territoriality:the possessive reaction to an area or to particular objects. We interact in three types of territories:

---->primary territories, secondary territories, public territories

We designate our primary and secondary territories with 3 types of markers. Markers give us feelings of belonging and may also serve as status cues to others:

~central markers

~boundary markers

~ear markers

-Color Communication – evidence suggests that colors may influence our psychology and surely influences our perceptions and behaviors

-Clothing and Body Adornment – people make inferences about who you are by the way you dress, the kind of jewelry you wear, the way you style your hair, your body piercings, and your tattoos

-Space Decoration – people make inferences about you based on how you decorate your private spaces (e.g., your home, your office) How you decorate your private spaces communicates who you are.

Smell Communication (Olfactics/Olfactory) – communication through odor; odors contribute to our perceptions of health, alertness, awareness, relaxation, etc.

---Attraction messages

---Taste

---Memory

---Identification messages

The Meanings of Touch : touch conveys：

==> positive emotion

==> playfulness

==> control

==> ritual

==> task-relatedness