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Nonverbal Communication

e several directions. The speaker may assume either hostility or acquiescence from the lack of response and carry on a ridiculous one-sided conversation based on the inferences he decides to draw from the corpse's 'management' of nonverbal channels of communication.

But Freud's remark also brings up the problem of deception. It is a mistake to think that "body language," as it is popularly called, is a sure means of detecting deception in interactions. But it appears that people can do a lot better at detecting deception than most do in ordinary situations. Research has found that nonverbal behaviors were significantly different overall in cases where people lied (on instruction) for the experimenters. Studies of deception and nonverbal behavior can be divided into those that feature highly motivated liars (i.e., those who have been promised monetary rewards for successful deception) and less-motivated deceivers. The nonverbal behaviors that appear in motivated liars include dilation of the pupils, raised voice pitch and hesitations in speech. In comparison to less motivated deceivers, motivated liars over-control other behaviors; they "blink, gaze, and move head and body less, and speak slower" (Argyle 79).

Other researchers have found that people tend largely to look at the wrong kinds of nonverbal behaviors, or to view them incorrectly, when they are trying to detect deception. Latency, gaze aversion, speech errors, postural shifts and reduced smiling were all incorrectly believed to provide cues to deception. Other cues were overlooked entirely, including pupil dilation, less blinking, reduction in head movements and shorter utterances (Argyle 81). Researchers have also discovered that those who attempt to deceive display even finer shades of nonverbal behavior than are noticeable without specific training. The briefest possible flashes of expressions, the quick attempt to replace expressions (as in using a smile ...

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