Chapter 6

We learn about verbal message and in this chapter it is all about non-verbal message and non-verbal communication. Some of us had already learned about this non-verbal communication in oral communication last semester. But in this chapter we learn even deeper about the non-verbal message and communication. It is actually a communication but without words, but using gestures, body language, eye contact and everything that you can sense or develop other than hearing words. And then we learn about the benefits that most of us did not realise at all, which is the greater your ability to send and receive nonverbal signals, the higher your attraction, popularity, and psychological well-being are likely to be, and the other one is the greater your nonverbal skills is, the more powerful you will likely to be at influencing others.

 Then the lecture taught us about the integrating non-verbal and verbal message. It may use to form or complement impression. The picture below are some of the examples that made to you and from you.

Then we learn about the importance of non-verbal gestures and communications that used in various stages of relationships. When you are with employers, you appear professional and smart during work so they will give you respect and feel conformable to talk with you. For normal friends you adopt a openly and fluently look so that your friends would like to talk with you. Then for your best friends, most people would not hide anything by just letting it all out. Lastly, for your first few dates with your girlfriend or boyfriend you would be more polite and generous, but after that you would not care much about each other image in front of each other.

After that we learned about tun taking cues. For example, you would want others to reply you or want  others to answer you. The most common one that people use for example "what do you think?" or "is this good?" But most of them are non verbal, nod of your head, eye contact and more.

Then the lecture taught us about the channels of non verbal communication. The picture below are the channels of non-verbal communication: