PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Nonverbal Communication, Ecological Validity, Appeasement
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Words such as smile, laugh, gaze, and touch seem simple enough, but they can refer to many classes of nonverbal behaviour, with often contrasting emotional connotations. However single words like smile fail adequately to describe the language of nonverbal communication. Emblems: nonverbal gestures that directly translate to words. Illustrator: a nonverbal gesture that accompanies our speech, to make it vivid, visual or emphatic. Regulators: are nonverbal behaviours that we use to coordinate conversation, behaviours such as head nods, and eyebrow flashes and encouraging vocalization of interest. Self-adaptor: nervous behaviours that lack seeming intentions, as if simply to release nervous energy such as when people touch their faces, tug at their hair, jiggle their legs, bite their lips and etc. Displays of emotion: signals in the face, voice, body and touch that convey emotion. Several characteristics differentiate emotional expressions from other nonverbal behaviours. Expressions of emotion tend to last just a few seconds.
