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Interpersonal Non-Verbal

Interpersonal Non-Verbal. What does the textbook mean when it says:. Most nonverbal behavior is not codified . . . a particular behavior can have many meanings. . . depending on the user’s personality, family influences, culture, the context of the communication,

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Interpersonal Non-Verbal

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  1. Interpersonal Non-Verbal

  2. What does the textbook mean when it says: Most nonverbal behavior is not codified. . . a particular behavior can have many meanings. . . depending on the user’s • personality, • family influences, • culture, • the context of the communication, • or, the relationship of the nonverbal behavior to the verbal message. Pg. 115

  3. Verbal Communication Nonverbal Communication • The words we use • Actions, vocal qualities, and activities that typically accompany a verbal message

  4. 65%Social Meaning is nonverbal behavior (Burgoon, Buller,, & Woodall, 1989, p. 155)

  5. 93% of emotional meaning of messages is nonverbal. Mehrabian (1972)

  6. Show Off Time

  7. Anger

  8. Disgust

  9. Embarrassment

  10. Elation

  11. Dispair

  12. Contentment

  13. Loneliness

  14. The Nature ofNonverbal Communication Affective Ambiguous Continuous Multi-channeled

  15. Group Activity

  16. Functions ofNonverbal Communication Verbal Communication Substitute Complement Contradict

  17. When nonverbal and verbal contradict, we tend to accept the nonverbal inference.

  18. Nonverbal Communication Everything except the words! • Facial expression and eye contact • Kinesics (body motion) • Proxemics and personal space • Artifacts • Touch (haptics) • Paralanguage • Chronemics (time) • Physical characteristics

  19. Gender related nonverbal rules • Men & women have different nonverbal rules. • What can men do that women can not? (nonverbally) • What can women do that men can not? (nonverbally)

  20. Mrs. Doubtfire

  21. Uses of Body Motion • Emblems • Illustrators • Affect display • Regulators • Adaptors • Courtship readiness cues: • Preening behavior • Positional cues • Actions of appeal or invitation

  22. Emblems • Nonverbal gestures that take the place of a word or phrase Microsoft Photo

  23. Illustrators Nonverbal gestures that complement what a speaker is saying Microsoft Photo

  24. Affect Displays • Facial expressions and gestures that augment the verbal expression of feelings Microsoft Photo

  25. Regulators Facial expressions or gestures that are used to control or regulate the flow of a conversation Microsoft Photo

  26. Adaptors • Body motions that are used to relieve tension Microsoft Photo

  27. Is everyone awake?

  28. 5 Students have used up their 3 absences!

  29. Smile Smiling is one of a very limited number of “pancultural” nonverbal behaviors. • Intensify • Deintensify • Neutralize • Masking.

  30. Facial Expressions • Intensify – exaggerate our facial expressions to fit the situation, i.e. smiling at a wedding. • Deintensify – when we want to control or subdue an expression, when you found out you got into law school and your friend did not. • Neutralize – avoid showing any facial expressions to appear neutral, i.e. judges at a gymnastic event. • Masking – when you want to conceal our real emotion, i.e. when your significant other buys something and you want to conceal your anger by looking excited.

  31. Activity

  32. Directions: Identify three examples of situations where you employed each of these facial management techniques when controlling your facial expressions.

  33. Directions: Identify two examples of situations where you employed each of these facial management techniques when controlling your facial expressions.

  34. Facial expression is the strongest nonverbal communicator Of the face the eye communicates more than any other feature. “Our faces are the windows to the world.”

  35. Eye Contact The majority of people in the United States and other Western cultures expect people to look them in the eye when communicating. Microsoft Photo

  36. Eye Contact • Japanese direct their gaze to a position around the Adam’s apple. • Chinese, Indonesians, and Mexicans lower their eyes as a sign of deference. • Arabs look intently into others’ eyes showing keen interest. Microsoft Photo

  37. Paralanguage Vocal communication minus the words Pitch Volume Rate Quality

  38. Touch • Touching and being touched are essential to a healthy life • Touch can communicate power, empathy, understanding Microsoft Photo

  39. Self-Presentation • What message do you wish to send with your choice of clothing and personal grooming? Microsoft Photo

  40. Dress & Artifacts • How do you dress? • Comfort & protection • Modesty • Cultural Display • What artifacts do you display? Microsoft Photo

  41. Time • How do we manage and react to others’ management of time • duration • activity • punctuality Microsoft Photo

  42. Polychronic and monochronic variations of time exist within cultures. Should we ask polychronics to conform in the workplace?

  43. Smell • Our sense of smell is very personal. • Our sense of smell often dictates how we perceive others from different cultures. • Variations: • Deodorants • Soaps • Perfumes • Body lotions

  44. Proxemics - how we use the space around us - our environment Intimate distance, up to 18”, is appropriate for private conversations between close friends. Personal distance, from 18”- 4’, is the space in which casual conversation occurs. Social distance, from 4’ – 12’, is where impersonal business such as job interviews is conducted. Public distance is anything more than 12’

  45. Personal Space at Work • Your office • Your desk • A table in the cafeteria that you sit at regularly Microsoft Photo

  46. Color Influences Communication Red excites and stimulates Yellow cheers and elevates moods Blue comforts and soothes Insome cultures black suggests mourning In some cultures white suggests purity

  47. Nonverbal Signals Vary from culture to culture Microsoft Photo

  48. What does this symbol mean to you? • In the United States it is a symbol for good job • In Germany the number one • In Japan the number five • In Ghana an insult • In Malaysia the thumb is used to point rather than a finger -Atlantic Committee for the Olympic Games

  49. To improve our communication . . . We need to monitor our own nonverbal communication and exercise care in interpreting that of others.

  50. Nonverbal Expectancy Violation Theory Independently read pages 125-6, “Nonverbal Expectancy Violation Theory.” Consider its implications.

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