 Modifies verbal communication  Expresses feelings  Regulates interaction

 Emblems ◦ Substitute for verbal comm.  Illustrators ◦ Gestures  Affect displays ◦ Display emotion  Adaptors ◦ Reduce stress

 Shape  Size  Clothing  Jewelry

 Functional- professional  Social  Friendship  Love/intimacy  Sexual

 Pitch ◦ High/low tone  Disfluencies(fillers) “um/uh/okay”

 Physical space ◦ Color ◦ Temperature ◦ Lighting ◦ Noise ◦ Shapes/sizes  Personal ◦ Hall Theory  Territory

 Appearance ◦ Clothing  Adornments ◦ Tatoos ◦ Piercings

 Psychological ◦ Past ◦ Present ◦ future  Formal ◦ Schedule ◦ Spontaneity

WOMENMEN  Need less space  More constraining clothes  Be touched,not initiate touch  Use more eye contact  Demand more space  More confortable clothes  Initiate touch  Use less eye contact

 High context ◦ interaction ◦ More intimacy ◦ Closer space  Low context ◦ More distance ◦ Less intimacy ◦ More formal

 Check how you present yourself ◦ Types of nonvebal ◦ Open to change ◦ Commitment  Be aware of your “message”  Practice nonverbal immediately