COM101 Chapter 3: Nonverbal Communication

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