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Nonverbal communication

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Nonverbal communication is usually understood as the process of communication through sending and receiving wordless (mostly visual) cues between people. Messages can be communicated through gestures and touch, by body language or posture, by facial expression and eye contact. Speech contains nonverbal elements known as paralanguage, including voice quality, rate, pitch, volume, and speaking style, as well prosodic features such as rhythm, intonation, and stress. Likewise, written texts have nonverbal elements such as handwriting style, spatial arrangement of words, or the physical layout of a page. However, much of the study of nonverbal communication has focused on face-to-face interaction, where it can be classified into three principal areas: environmental conditions where communication takes place, physical characteristics of the communicators, and behaviors of communicators during interaction.

Contents  [hide]  * 1 Importance * 2 History * 3 First impression * 4 Posture * 5 Clothing * 6 Gestures * 7 Engagement * 8 Genetics * 9 Proxemics: Physical Space in Communication * 10 Movement and body position * 10.1 Kinesics * 10.2 Haptics: touching in communication * 11 Functions of nonverbal communication * 11.1 Criticism * 11.2 Interaction of verbal and nonverbal communication * 11.2.1 Complementing * 11.2.2 Substituting * 12 Clinical studies of nonverbal communication * 13 Conclusion * 14 Footnotes * 15 See also * 16 References * 17 External links |

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SymbolTable for Non-verbal communication with patients

“Most social psychologists will tell you that nonverbal communication makes up about two-thirds of all communication between two people or between one speaker and a group of listeners.”[1] Nonverbal...