1. CT 4/510: Advanced Interpersonal Communication Elements of Nonverbal Communication

2. Nonverbal Communication consists of all cues beyond the written and spoken word.

3. respond more positively to well dressed people Appearance communicates

4. more likely to obey well dressed people

5. more likely to return money to well dressed people.

6. more likely to let well dressed people break the rules.

7. What does our appearance today communicate about us?

8. information we get from physical appearance economic disclosures

9. educational disclosures

10. social status disclosures

11. trustworthiness/moral disclosures

12. The less you know someone, the more importance you will place on appearance. And... First impressions are usually accurate...

13. The six faces of emotion happy angry sad surprised disgusted afraid

14. Types of touching functional-professional social-polite friendship-warmth love-intimacy sexual arousal

15. The environment communicates spacial arrangements

16. formality

17. $$

18. cleanliness

19. time before retirement after retirement

20. How do you... initiate conversation with a stranger at a party? appear friendly and warm? signal your desire to leave a conversation when the other person keeps talking?

21. How do you... Appear confident when asking boss for a raise? Appear interested in class lecture? Avoid talking with an undesirable person?

22. Charles Taylor: What does it mean to live a moral life in terms of interpersonal relationships?

23. With the reformation, the Christian good life became the common, and the elite were dethroned. What are the valued activities of an ordinary life?

24. What are the elite values which have been dethroned?

25. How can we be dignified (not disgraced or shamed) in our culture?

26. interpret: “How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the whole horizon?” Effect of this on interpersonal relationships?

27. CT 410 Advanced Interpersonal Communication context as communication

28. context communicates - our physical environment encourages certain communication expectations

29. every interior betrays the nonverbal skills of its inhabitants

30. Malls have become the temples, shrines and communal centers of modern North America The environment communicates: Montreal

31. George Lewis: the important thing is to create the illusion of community while quietly stacking the deck against its actual development Vancouver

32. Malls create a disorienting environment where we participate by buying. Minnesota

33. Malls attempt to commodify community Georgia

34. Malls are located so as to insulate shoppers from poor people.

35. Malls are designed to move you along...

36. What are the primary kinds of conversations people have in malls?

37. your observations concerning context and interpersonal communication

38. banks

39. sculpture in context

40. living space

41. geography and climate

42. colors

43. seating arrangements vc nv us sv

44. seating arrangements vc nv us sv

45. Robert Sommers x x xx x x x cooperate compete cooperate co-act

46. A classroom colors lighting decorations rows control temperature atmosphere