Answers 2026 Updated.
More romantic love leads to what nonverbal signals? - Answer -more affirmative head nods
-duchenne smiles
-forward leaning
-hand gestures
How pitch changes when speaking to a romantic partner - Answer men: raise pitch when
talking to gf
women: lowered pitch when talking to bf
when is the most touch used in a relationship - Answer middle stages
which nonverbals show high romantic attraction? - Answer head nods
short back channels
longer smile furation
more frequent filled pauses
longer gaze duration
touch the face/waist
how strangers vs close friends vs acquaintances decode nonverbals - Answer close friends:
better than strangers
acquaintances: better at decoding negative affect than close friends
motivated inaccuracy model - Answer when we have more at stake with a negative emotion,
we are more worried it is targeted at us and we decode it inaccurately b/c we are threatened by
it
smooth turn transition - Answer when the floor switches b/t people without perceptible
pause (less than 250 ms; aka phonetic pause)
Simultaneous Turns vs. Simultaneous Talk - Answer turns:
talk: not trying to take the floor from the other (ex: oh!)
turn yielding cues - Answer -changes in intonation (declarative: decrease, question: increase)
, -sociocentric sequence: "ya know"
-drawl: stretching out syllables
-termination of gestures
turn holding cues - Answer -gaze without a yielding cue
-gesture: one minute
-gaze aversion: don't want to see their turn request
turn requesting cues - Answer -backchannels: nodding (mistankenly encoded as request for
floor)
-speaker directed gaze
-audible inhalation
-forward lean
-gesture: raise hand
-stutter start
Interruptions - Answer to take the floor in the absence of a turn yielding cue
-increase in volume = successful
-commonly followed by more interruptions
types of interruptions - Answer -deep/intrusive: disagreeing interruption
-supportive: reaction that takes floor momentarily, backchannel, (ex: omg thats so cool!)
deception - Answer act intended to foster in another a belief that the deceiver considers false
leakage cues - Answer info that gives away th true info
-cue competition: verbal and nonverbal don't match (sarcasm)
detection apprehension: fear of getting caught
orthello error - Answer just because they are nervous doesn't mean they are lying
underlying emotional factors in deception - Answer fear (detection apprehenction)
guilt (deception guilt)
excitement (duping delight)