Nonverbal communication

Guerrero (1997) raises a number of interesting issues in analyzing nonverbal behavior in terms of the relationship between the sender and receiver to discover what differences might be found among same-sex friends, opposite-sex friends, and opposite-sex romantic partners. Presumably, the interactions should differ in some terms among these different dyadic partners, and factors such as communicator sex and predispositions toward approach/avoidance considered likely to contribute to consistency in nonverbal behaviors. Factors such as target sex, type of relationship, intimacy, and impression management are seen as likely to contribute to change in nonverbal behaviors. Guerrero investigated how the involvement of the individual i

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t al. (1996) also examine initial encounters of mixed-sex dyads, specially with reference to physically attractive people who describe their daily interactions as more disclosing, intimate, and satisfying then do unattractive people. It was found that both men and women disclosed more if they themselves were attractive and if their partner was attractive, and physical attractiveness itself becomes a nonverbal communicator in such situations. Smiling Briton and Hall (1995) examine the specific behavior of smiling in terms of gender-based expectations and perceived, trying to ascertain beliefs about gender differences in smiling by asking college students to rate how much they believed hypothetical men and women smile. It was believed that women smile more than men do, but individual differences in this belief did not affect subsequent scoring of smiles. Female targets under all conditions were observed to smile more than men. Gaze Another behavior addressed in the research is gaze, which can have a different effect depending on the situation in which it is assessed. There are two competing models of social meaning and effects of eye gaze--the first is that different levels of eye gaze have clearly identifiable meani
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