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1. Kinesics The study of the communicative impact of body movement and ges-
tures.
2. Non-gestures Movements that have no communicative intent (ex: just walking
around).
3. Gestures Movement of the body or body part used to communicate an idea or
intention of feeling.
4. Speech independent ges- Gestures that stand alone and don't need spoken words (known as
tures emblems, autonomous gestures, and signals).
5. Speech dependent ges- Gestures that accompany speech (known as illustrators/gesticula-
tures tions).
6. Palms up Illustrators: uncertainty, begging
7. Palms down Illustrators: certainty, finality
8. Palms out Illustrators: calm down
9. Palms in Illustrators: referring to me
10. Illustrators Help visualize, expression, and accentuate meaning.
11. Gesture system A system of speech independent gestures used in specific situations
and professions.
12. Emotional contagion When we "catch" others' emotions, occurs when an emotional expe-
rience is triggered as a result of mimicking someone else's behavior.
13. 1) strongly felt emotions, Two conditions needed for emotional contagion:
2) competent encoders
and decoders
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14. Motor mimcry A nonverbal empathetic response- returning a smile.
15. Interaction synchrony When our body movements match with the other person during
interaction; building rapport.
16. Dual coding When we receive a message through two channels (whistle + ges-
ture).
17. (IS) Matching Doing the same thing as the other person.
18. (IS) Postural congruence Both partners exhibits the same postures/behaviors at once; occurs
during more positive speech.
19. (IS) Mirroring When the listener's behavior is a mirror image of the speaker.
20. (IS) Meshing The ongoing co-occurrence of changes in movement and speech by
both interactions; linked to satisfaction and liking.
21. (IS) Nonconcious mimcry Found to occur more often when people enter into an interaction with
the goal to aflliate or establish rapport.
22. Prosocial orentation Interaction synchrony is stronger among people who have... these
people focus on others rather than themselves.
23. Zygomaticus major The facial muscle pulls the mouth up so we can smile.
24. Orbicularis oculi The muscle that gives you wrinkles in the outer corner of your eyes.
25. Duchenne de Boulogne Neurologist in France
26. Guillaume-Ben- What's Duchenne's full name?
jamin-Amand Duchenne
27. A genuinely happy smile What is the Duchenne smile?
that involves both the en-
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1. Kinesics The study of the communicative impact of body movement and ges-
tures.
2. Non-gestures Movements that have no communicative intent (ex: just walking
around).
3. Gestures Movement of the body or body part used to communicate an idea or
intention of feeling.
4. Speech independent ges- Gestures that stand alone and don't need spoken words (known as
tures emblems, autonomous gestures, and signals).
5. Speech dependent ges- Gestures that accompany speech (known as illustrators/gesticula-
tures tions).
6. Palms up Illustrators: uncertainty, begging
7. Palms down Illustrators: certainty, finality
8. Palms out Illustrators: calm down
9. Palms in Illustrators: referring to me
10. Illustrators Help visualize, expression, and accentuate meaning.
11. Gesture system A system of speech independent gestures used in specific situations
and professions.
12. Emotional contagion When we "catch" others' emotions, occurs when an emotional expe-
rience is triggered as a result of mimicking someone else's behavior.
13. 1) strongly felt emotions, Two conditions needed for emotional contagion:
2) competent encoders
and decoders
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14. Motor mimcry A nonverbal empathetic response- returning a smile.
15. Interaction synchrony When our body movements match with the other person during
interaction; building rapport.
16. Dual coding When we receive a message through two channels (whistle + ges-
ture).
17. (IS) Matching Doing the same thing as the other person.
18. (IS) Postural congruence Both partners exhibits the same postures/behaviors at once; occurs
during more positive speech.
19. (IS) Mirroring When the listener's behavior is a mirror image of the speaker.
20. (IS) Meshing The ongoing co-occurrence of changes in movement and speech by
both interactions; linked to satisfaction and liking.
21. (IS) Nonconcious mimcry Found to occur more often when people enter into an interaction with
the goal to aflliate or establish rapport.
22. Prosocial orentation Interaction synchrony is stronger among people who have... these
people focus on others rather than themselves.
23. Zygomaticus major The facial muscle pulls the mouth up so we can smile.
24. Orbicularis oculi The muscle that gives you wrinkles in the outer corner of your eyes.
25. Duchenne de Boulogne Neurologist in France
26. Guillaume-Ben- What's Duchenne's full name?
jamin-Amand Duchenne
27. A genuinely happy smile What is the Duchenne smile?
that involves both the en-
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