Category: FAQ-Communication Non-Verbal
We tend to have a strange preoccupation with non-verbal communication, sometimes believing that it is far more important than it is, and that somehow we can use non-verbals to manipulate or secretly affect others. In this section, we’ll explain how non-verbal and paralanguage works so you can be more aware of the ways you communicate that tend to be unconscious, and appreciate how different people and cultures communicate in non-verbal ways.
Before you start, make sure to read our short article on the general misinterpretation and mis-statement of the work of Mehrabian, who is often improperly quoted and cited about the relative importance of verbal and non-verbal communication components.
Neurolinguistic Programming and Non-Verbal Behavior – A Caution
Why We Don’t Include NLP Techniques In Our Discussion of Non-Verbal Behavior Neurolinguistic Programming, or NLP, has become a common way for many non-psychologists to talk about human thinking and communication. It’s a pop psychology version. While it’s way beyond…
What Is A Person’s Baseline With Respect To Non-Verbal Communication?
Knowing a Person’s Baseline Is Critical To Understanding The Meaning of Their Non-Verbal Behavior Because the use of non-verbals is far from universal, you can’t interpret the meaning of non-verbal communication without knowing what a specific person typically does. How…
What Is Sign Language? (Non-Verbal Communication)
Sign language is a part of ALL of our communication The use of sign language is not, as you might think, restricted to people who have hearing disabilities. Even for hearing enabled people, sign language is a natural extension, or…
Is It Really Possible To Read People Like A Book?
Common Myth About Reading and Interpreting Non-Verbal Communication Is it really possible to “read” non-verbal communication behavior to get a jump or advantage in understanding an individual? The answer is mostly no. That’s a myth developed by marketers and sales…
What Are the Six Different Categories of Types of Non-Verbal Communication?
There’s more to non-verbal communication than most people think Most of us know just enough about non-verbal communication to be dangerous, and end up over-simplifying it. There’s a lot more to it than most lay people understand. There are actually…
What Is Tactile Communication? (The non-verbal primer)
We communicate a great deal through our physical contact, or lack of it, with others Tactile communication refers to what we communicate through the sense of touch — through touching, or not touching each other in various ways. Touch may…
