Non Verbal Communication

 Non-Verbal Communication

All of us communicate non-verbally. If irritated, we may tense our bodies, press our lips together, and gesture with our eyebrows, with a gaze, a glance or stare we can communicate intimacy, submission, or dominance.

Most of us are good at "reading" non-verbal cues to understand the emotions in an old silent film. we are especially good at detecting non-verbal threats, In a crowd of faces, a single angry face will "pop-out" faster than a single happy one. Some of us are more sensitive to these cues than others.

"Robert Rosenthal and colleagues discovered this by showing hundreds of people brief film clips of portions of a person's emotionally expressive face or body. sometimes with a garbled voice added. For example, after a two-second scene revealing only the face of an upset woman, the researchers would ask whether the woman was expressing anger or discussing a divorce. Rosenthal and company reported that some people are much better emotion detectors' than others and that women were better at it than men.