COMM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nonverbal Communication, Peripheral Vision, Exaggeration
25 Sep 2018
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The Communication of Emotion
Lecture 7
Verbal vs. Non-Verbal Communication
Emotional Communication:
●The minute signals of affect, attention, approach/avoidance, dominance/submission
○All of the signals that our bodies give off we give off when we communicate
●These signals help to shape social order
○Ex: Dogs have biological triggers that when they feel threatened, they growl
○Fight of Flight: Mouth open to let in more oxygen and eyes widen to allow more
peripheral vision
●Must be studied by studying the individual within the social system
Spontaneous Communication:
●Based upon a biologically-shared signal system
●FEAR RESPONSE IN UNIVERSAL
●Nonvoluntary
○We do not choose to be scared or frightened
●Involves signs, not signals
●Non-propositional (never false)
○You aren’t lying when you are scared, it comes natural and automatically
●Mainly right-brained
○Connects to vision, emotion, and creativity
Symbolic Communication:
●A socially-shared system
●Voluntary
○Involves choices, “What am I going to say?”
●Involves symbols (arbitrary)
○Includes nonverbal communication
○Waving to say hi, flipping someone off
●Propositional (Can be false)
○Contemplated reactions, it does not come natural
○Stresses people out because anything someone says can be a lie/misleading
●Mainly left brained
○Higher order thought
●Includes some nonverbal behaviors
