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Introduction

Nonverbal communication (NVC) is the transmission of messages or signals through a nonverbal platform such as eye contact, facial expressions, gestures, posture, and body language. It includes the use of social cues, kinesics, distance (proxemics) and physical environments/appearance, of voice (paralanguage) and of touch (haptics). A signal has three different parts to it including the basic signal, what the signal is trying to convey, and how it is interepreted. These signals that are transmitted to the receiver depend highly on the knowledge and empathy that this individual has. It can also include the use of time (chronemics) and eye contact and the actions of looking while talking and listening, frequency of glances, patterns of fixation, pupil dilation, and blink rate (oculesics).

Culture plays an important role in nonverbal communication, and it is one aspect that helps to influence how learning activities are organized. In many Indigenous American communities, for example, there is often an emphasis on nonverbal communication, which acts as a valued means by which children learn. Within cultures around the world there are extreme differences and similarities between a lot of nonverbal gestures or signals. For example the head gesture for yes and no may have different meanings depending on where you are in the world. In this sense, learning is not dependent on verbal communication; rather, it is nonverbal communication which serves as a primary means of not only organizing interpersonal interactions, but also conveying cultural values, and children learn how to participate in this system from a young age.

Importance According to some authors, nonverbal communication represents two-thirds of all communications. Nonverbal communication can portray a message both vocally and with the correct body signals or gestures. Body signals comprise physical features, conscious and unconscious gestures and signals, and the mediation of personal space. The wrong message can also be established if the body language conveyed does not match a verbal message. Paying attention to both verbal and nonverbal may leave you with a lost feeling due to not being able to breakdown both at the same time. But to ignore nonverbal communication altogether would cause you to lose up 60% percent of your communication experts say.

Scientific research on nonverbal communication and behavior was started in 1872 with the publication of Charles Darwin's book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. .

Initial Bibliography

1.) The first source I found could be useful if I want to add more information to the introduction of what nonverbal communication exactly is. I feel as if on Wikipedia the introduction is one of the most useful parts of an article when someone is trying to just get a basic understanding of the topic.

2.) This next source just gives me a study to use with the comparison between nonverbal behaviors and regular behaviors to create new meanings. A study will allow me to provide the facts.

3.) This one may be a stretch but I found it interesting so I am just going to include it. This article talks about the nonverbal communication between dogs and how with just an animal it is a very effective way to communicate.

4.) My fourth article talks about tt he importance of nonverbal communication within an actual social structure. I believe this will be useful in making an major edit to wikipedia.

5.) The fifth article that I looked at involves nonverbal communication within the classroom which can just provide another perspective for the importance of nonverbal communication in our day to day interactions.

6.) My sixth article looks more in depth at a type of nonverbal communication the eye gaze. I do not know where exactly I am going to fit this into my edit but I believe it will be useful to have.

7.) I decided to take the same route as my previous source and look at another individual type of nonverbal communication and that is touch.

8.) My eighth source is just a deeper understanding of nonverbal communication and the certain ques that people notice when communicating.

9.) I have already used this source in my Wikipedia edit and it just goes into how certain nonverbal ques can have different meanings throughout the whole world.

10.) My last source is another study and it looks at the emotional levels using science when communicating nonverbally.