Nonverbal communication in human interaction

1. nonverbal: commonly used to describe all human communication events that transcend spoken or written words.
2. more appropriate to think of behaviors as existing on a continuum with some behaviors overlapping two continua.
3. we encode and decode nonverbal behaviors with varying degrees of awareness and control: 1) carefully planned responses, very much aware of what we are doing 2) responses occur more automatically, little conscious planning and awareness is associated with them.
4. research on nonverbal communication can be broken into