Kinesics*
gestures, eye contact and body language
Emblems
body movements that carry meaning in and of themselves. Ex. thumbs up
Illustrators
body movements that help receivers interpret and better attend to what is being said verbally. Ex. talking with your hands
Regulators
body movements that are employed to guide conversations. Ex. head nod
adaptors
body movements that "satisfy physical or psychological needs
Self-adaptors
movements that people direct toward themselves of their bodies. Ex. biting fingernails
Alter-directed adaptors
like self adaptors except directed towards other people. Ex. caressing a partners hair
Object adaptors
movements that involve attention to an object. Ex. biting on a pen
affect
body movements that express emotion without the use of touch. (emotions)
haptics*
refers to all aspects of touch
proxemics*
the way we use space
territories
physically fixed areas that one or more individuals defend as their own
personal space
proxemic based need that moves with the individual- "invisible bubble
ectomorphic
thin bone structure, lean bodies
mesomorphic
strong bone structure, muscular and athletic
endomorphic
large bone structure, heavy-set and somewhat rounded
Vocalics*
all aspects of the voice- loudness, pitch, accent, rate of speech, pauses, tone of voice, etc.
Artifacts
physical objects and environmental attributes that communicate directly, define the communication context or somehow guide social behavior
Chronemics
our use and perception of time including the length of events, multitasking, and sequencing of events
Interaction position
reflects the amount of distance you anticipate from others
Interaction partner (IP)
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self-presentation
a matter of regulating one's own behavior to create a particular impression on others, of communicating a particular image of oneself to others, or of showing oneself to be a particular kind of person
Display rules*
socially learned habits regarding the control of facial appearance that act to intensity, deintensify, mask, or quality expression of emotion depending on the social circumstance