While eye behaviors are often studied under the category of kinesics, they have their own branch of nonverbal studies called oculesics, which comes from the Latin word oculus, meaning eye. The face and eyes are the main point of focus during communication, and along with our ears our eyes take in most of the communicative information around us. Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, airports around the world have had increased security. Individuals also vary based on whether or not they are future or past oriented. For example, we let barbers, hairstylists, doctors, nurses, tattoo artists, and security screeners touch us in ways that would otherwise be seen as intimate or inappropriate if not in a professional context. As we breach the invisible line that is 1.5 feet from our body, we enter the intimate zone, which is reserved for only the closest friends, family, and romantic/intimate partners. For example: Leaning forward to communicate interest and encourage the speaker to keep talking. It is a very powerful form of communication that can be used to communicate messages ranging from comfort to power. Chronemics incorporates many features within this non-verbal means of communication such as answer time, the allocation of time to different topics, student's biological clocks, and whether students are monochromic or polychromic. Protests against and anxiety about the body scanners, more colloquially known as naked x-ray machines, led to the new enhanced pat-down techniques for passengers who refuse to go through the scanners or passengers who are randomly selected or arouse suspicion in other ways. Specifically, this section will outline the use of gestures, head movements and posture, eye contact, and facial expressions as nonverbal communication. At the functional-professional and social-polite levels, touch still has interpersonal implications. Kinesics: It is refer to the study of body movement which include eye contact , facial expression, gestures, postures and head movements. The Strange Career of the Lady Possum of the New World, To Get Help for Sick Kids, Mothers Wrote to Washington. The following is a review of the various communicative functions of vocalics: Proxemics refers to the study of how space and distance influence communication. Proxemics is one among several subcategories in the study of nonverbal communication, including haptics (touch), kinesics (body movement), vocalics (paralanguage), and chronemics (structure of time). Chronemics: - " One who is in the position to cause another to wait has power over him. The strong reactions are expected given what weve learned about the power of touch as a form of nonverbal communication.
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