NonVerbal Messages

Scholarly research indicates that there are at least nine components of communication that are expressive in a nonverbal manner, leading to increased difficulties in understanding and explaining communication. These components follow: the human body, in that physical characteristics often convey a message; kinesics, the language of body position and movement; paralanguage, those voice qualities and characteristics that accompany spoken words; silence; tacesics and stroking, the language of touch and its substitutes; proxemics, the way that humans use space to communicate; chronemics, time in both its cultural and physiological dimensions; color; and, considered to be one of the most dominant forms of nonverbal communication, the eyes, their contract and use (Vargas, 1986, pp. 1011).

Even in popular culture, the power of the eyes is almost dominant in the contemporary world. Everywhere humans look there are visual messages

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ry and hence are not as capable of expressing themselves verbally as an adult might be (Harper, Wiens & Matarazzo, 1978). Additionally, studies have shown that children's visual expressivity is often more powerful and dominant than their verbal behavior, in part because of limited vocabulary development and a lack of some of the repressive socialization regarding nonverbal behaviors that adults express (Neill, 1989, pp. 2615). One of the first presumptions that must be explained about visual nonverbal communication is the methodological basis for its quantitative and qualitative measurement. Using a series of standard statistical tests, Baesler and Burgoon (1987) established that most nonverbal behaviors can be measured reliably and that the codes that are used to establish certain guidelines within nonverbal research are also statistically reliable. There is a further issue involving the types and quantity of visual nonverbal camouflage (naturally occurring messages that are consistent) and the way that camouflage may bias the messages given in communication. However, recent research indicated that the nonverbal dominance (e.g. nonverbal behavior taking precedence over verbal behavior) effect was present when the level of
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