February 2008
Beginner
224 pages
3h 15m
English
After 75 years of social science research and 5,000 years of human experience, six principles of nonverbal communication are considered universally true:
Nonverbal communication occurs in a context—. Just as context is important to the meaning of verbal messages, so is context important to your understanding of nonverbal messages. Folded arms and laid-back posture may mean disinterest or boredom on one occasion but may signify introspective thought on another. Professor Joseph DeVito of Hunter College says, in fact, that “Divorced from the context, it is impossible to tell what any given bit of nonverbal behavior may mean.... In attempting to understand and analyze nonverbal communication...it ...
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