Zusammenfassung der Ressource
3: WHAT DO WE SHOW?
- Non- verbal behaviour and communication
- History:18th -19th century: "natural languages" > symbolic communication. Importance of
immeadiate situaitonal facotrs: proximal/ situational influences & distal/ historical influences
- Style:
- Personal idiom
- Instrumental
aspects of
action
- Expressive aspects
of action:
personalized (e.g.
voice or signature)
- Skill
- (Complex,
coordinated motor
acts) acquired from
environment by
practicing
- Study of NVB
- Knapp: 7 dimensions of
NVB:
- 1. Kinesics (body language)
- 2. Paralanguage (content free
vocalization)
- 3. Physical contact (touching)
- 4. Proxemics
- 5. Physical characteristics of people
- 6. Artefacts (cloths, perfume, jewelry)
- 7. Environmental factors (setting)
- Context is important!
- Social climate: stressful/
relaxed situations
- Formal (less NVB) /
Informal setting (more
NVB)
- Physical/ social
envirnoment
- Ekman & Friesen: 3
categories
- USAGE: all
circumstances
(setting, emotinal
tone, relationship)
- ORIGIN:
root/ location of NVB
( nervous
system,
culture)
- CODING: meaning
of the NVB
- Extrinsic: are
something else than
what they represent
(e.g. thumbs-up)
- Intrinsic: same as
representation (eg.
playful form of
aggression = aggr.)
- + 5 categories of behavioural acts
- Emblems (culturally specific)
- Illustrator: "it was
this wide.."
- Regulator: head nods,
eye contact etc that
regulate conversation
flow. CULTURE
SPECIFIC!
- Adapters: object or self-
manipulation
(behavioural habits like
scratching the head,
folidng arms, pencil-
tapping on table)
- Affect displays: facial
expressions
- 7 universal
emorions
we are born
with!
- Encoder (talker) /vs. decoder (listener)
- INFORMATIVE ACT
- unintentional
signal >
interpretation
- form impressions
- COMMUNICATIVE ACT
- Intentional: the message content
- Encoder can send GOAL DIRECTED or NON-GOAL-DIRECTED SIGNALS
- Decoder may interpret them differently
- Patterson: 7 basic funtions of NVB:
- 1. Providing information
- 2. Regulating interactions
- 3. Expressing intimacy
- 4. Expressing social control
- 5. Presentation function
- 6. Affect management
- 7. Facilitating service tasks/goals
- Exchange of
expressions in
interaction
- 4 classes of factors:
- Actor and observer bias: Actors overemphasize
situational factors in explaining own behavior,
observers overemphasize dispositional factors
- Dittmann: 4 channels
- Language
- Facial expressions
- Vocalizations
- Body movements
- Based on
communicative
channel capacity
- Defined by how much
information each of the channels
can transmit at any moment
- Channels go from
Communicative/discrete
to Expressive/continuous
- Mehrabian:
- POSITIVENESS
evaluation: >
approach or
avoid
- POTENCY:
status/ social
control (cues of
posture)
- RESPONSIVENESS:
activity cues
- Voluntary & Involuntary Behaviour // Detecting Decpetion
- LIE: a deliberate intention to mislead.
- Darwin: some emotions have universal facial impression > facial muscles can reveal our true emotions involuntarily
(we canot control these muscles) > it's hard to hide true emotions
Anmerkungen:
- Reliable facial muscles: Facial actions that aren´t easily controlled by most people
- Leakage of felt emotions: When parts of an expression occur (rapidly), betraying how a person feels even if that person is attempting to conceal their feelings
- Lie continuum:
- Differences between expressed emotions and truly felt emotions
- Morphology
- the facial expression looks different when emotion is truly felt than when it is faked (different muscle
movements)
- Fake smile: movements associated with fear, sadness or disgust
- Duchenne smile: sincere smile, Orbicularis Oculi muscles are activated (laughing eyes) + Zygomatic major.
Left frontal EEG activation (positive affect)
- Timing
- Duration and speed of
onset, abruptness
- Micro facial expressions
- Fake emotions start and end abruptly and
last too long
- True emotions last ~0.7 to 4 sec.
- Symmetry
- Emotions are more intensely expressed on
the left side of the face! > Sincere emotions
are asymmetrical! (Except happiness)
- True smiles are more symmetrical
- Cohesion
- Facial expression will be consistent with
the content of speech
- The context, usual manner, internal
consistency
- Lying cues: hesitation, changes in
emphasis, speech errors and
distancing language
- Changes in the frequency or tempo of gestures
- Experiment: Weaknesses: Based on high-stakes lies in laboratory setting with little preparation -> In real
world people are more practiced in lies
- Hand gestures
- Speech- gesture realtionship: Aid
comprehension for the listener
- Categories:
- Illustrators / Ideational gestures
- improve the listener´s attention, recognition, understanding and
memory about the content > clarify the content
- iconic &metaphoric gestures, related
to the semantic content / concurrent
speech
- Conversational gestures (without relation
to semantic content)
- rhytmic & cohersive gestures
linked to speech structure
- Adaptors:
- Self-addressed (touch own
body)
- Object- addressed (contact with
objects)
- Person -addressed
- associated with anxiety, soemtimes
with deception
- Experiment
- AIM: how gestures affect the perception of th
espeaker and message and persuasion
- DVs: coomunicative effectiveness,
composure, comptenece, warmth of
speaker and persuasiveness of message
- Results:
- Hand gesture type affected some
factors of speaker evaluation,
interpersonal perception and
judgement
- Ideational gestures are more effective
than adaptors (object-addressed and
self-addressed)
- speaker seems more competent, has
more effective communicaiton style and
sending a more persuasive message
- Generally, linked-to-speech
gestures (ideational &
conversational) influence the
message evaluation and
judgements about the speaker
more than non-linked-to-speech
(adaptor) gestures. > Namely, they
improve perceived speaker
composure
- Weaknesses: (1) using a
positive messgae in the
manipulatiom, (2) relations
among DVs, (3) cross-
cultural comparisnon is
needed
- can also provide information
about the speaker
- e.g. social abilites
- 2 dimensions underlying judgment:
- Warmth, friendliness, sociability
- Agency, competence, efficacy
- Communication style is a way to affect perceptions of speaker´s features
- Nonverbal characteristics inluence the perceptions of credibility, persuasiveness, competency or
effectiveness of the speaker
- NV styles also influence likeablesness, competence, powerfulness, anxiety...
- NVB: hihg speech volume and speech rate, high eye contact > liking > persuasiveness