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An 8 page look at non-verbal communications (i.e., gestures, motions, batting eyelashes, etc;) and the importance of realizing that different groups of people may interpret them in different ways. The primary focus of this particular report, however, is to analyze the controversy over whether most non-verbal communication activities are in-born traits or learned activities. Various issues and studies are explored to help answer this very question and arguments seem to lean strongly in favor of the 'in-born side' for certain non-verbal communications while some lean strongly in favor of the 'learned' side for other examples of non-verbal communication. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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judgments or impressions of people can be influenced by the body movements and postures in which they are engaging at a particular time. I imagine that we have all
met people who are good at judging how others around them feel. Still, many people are insensitive to those feelings. From what I have learned, body postures and
movements may have vastly different meanings to people in different cultures. For this reason, it is probably not possible to generalize how people overall are able to interpret body
language and other forms of non-verbal communications. According to much of my research, it is most probable that people can learn to become sensitive to body language within a
given culture. (Lazear, 1984). Some U.S. studies have shown that women and men are different about the amount of time that they engage in
several body postures. Observations taken of men and women in therapeutic interviews found that men pointed more frequently than women and that women shrugged their shoulders, shook their heads,
and turned their palms up and out more frequently than men. In one study, I read that it was felt by the experimenters that men have pointing and open-leg
behaviors represented by either an act or intrusive pattern but females have a "folded-arm posture" and usually crossed legs which make them seem either more inhibited or inclusive. (Mahl,
1968). Evidently, there are also variations in the use of body language within various subcultures of the U.S. For example, nursery-school aged children from
different backgrounds were asked in one study to pretend that they were in a s situation in which they were trying to tell something to somebody else without actually talking.
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