Nonverbal communication
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Nonverbal communication is the transmission of messages or signals through a nonverbal platform such as eye contact, body language, social distance, touch, voice, physical environments/appearance, and
Understanding each other through hand and eye expression: the number two seen at a streetside vendor near the Bell Tower of Xi'an in China
Charles Darwin wrote The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in 1872.
Policeman directing traffic by gesture
Information about the relationship and affect of these two skaters is communicated by their body posture, eye gaze and physical contact.
Proxemics
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Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behavior, communication, and social interaction. Proxemics is one among several subcategories in the study o
Nonverbal communication
…is the transmission of messages or signals through a nonverbal platform such as eye contact (oculesics), body language (kinesics), social distance (proxemics), touch (haptics), voice (prosody and paralanguage), physical environments/appearance, and use of objects. When communicating, nonverbal channels are…
A long shot—the public proxemic
A full shot—the social proxemic
A medium shot—the personal proxemic
A close-up—the intimate proxemic