Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.
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Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.
We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.
Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.
One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.
Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.
There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.
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