{"id":677,"date":"2007-02-20T09:10:14","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T15:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/8-forms-of-nonverbal-communication\/"},"modified":"2007-02-20T09:10:04","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T15:10:04","slug":"8-forms-of-nonverbal-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/8-forms-of-nonverbal-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Forms Of NonVerbal Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our readers sent an email this past week questioning the &#8220;experts&#8221; that claim the vast majority of communication is nonverbal. I searched around for more information on this topic and found this about.com page &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/psychology.about.com\/od\/nonverbalcommunication\/a\/nonverbaltypes.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Types of Nonverbal Communication<\/a>. This page breaks down 8 different forms of communication:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Facial Expression<br \/>\n2. Gestures<br \/>\n3. Paralinguistics<br \/>\n4. Body Language and Posture<br \/>\n5. Proxemics (personal space)<br \/>\n6. Eye Gaze<br \/>\n7. Haptics (touch)<br \/>\n8. Appearance <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quite a list with communication channels I did not consider. Appearance is an excellent point &#8211; think of a candidate who appeared for an interview and looked like an unmade bed. That appearance communicated something beyond poor clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Or how about this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When people encounter people or things that they like, the rate of blinking increases and pupils dilate. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That fact may only interest a psych major like myself.  At any rate, I am still tracking down the percentage breakdown, but this article is worth the quick read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our readers sent an email this past week questioning the &#8220;experts&#8221; that claim the vast majority of communication is nonverbal. I searched around for more information on this topic and found this about.com page &#8211; Types of Nonverbal Communication. This page breaks down 8 different forms of communication: 1. Facial Expression 2. Gestures 3. Paralinguistics 4. Body Language and Posture 5. Proxemics (personal space) 6. Eye Gaze 7. Haptics (touch) 8. Appearance Quite a list with communication channels I did not consider. Appearance is an excellent point &#8211; think of a candidate who appeared for an interview and looked like an unmade bed. That appearance communicated something beyond&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/8-forms-of-nonverbal-communication\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-aV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->