PSYC18H3 Chapter : Emotions ch 4.docx
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Emotions ch 4 five kinds of nonverbal behavior. Ekman organized the language of nonverbal behavior into five categories. Emblems: nonverbal gestures that directly translate to words ex: peace sign. Illustrators: a nonverbal gesture that accompanies our speech and often makes it vivid and visual, we make hand gestures most of the time when we speak, we also make facial gestures. Regulators: are nonverbal behaviors that we use to coordinate conversation. People look and point at and orient their bodies toward people whom they want to start speaking. Self adaptor: nervous behaviors people engage in with no seeming intention, to release nervous energy. There are nonverbal expressions or displays of emotion: signals in the face, voice body and touch that convey emotion. Several characteristics have been identified that differentiate emotional expressions from other nonverbal behavior. Expressions of emotions tend to be fairly brief.
