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Hand gestures and perceived influence in small group interaction

The Spanish journal of psychology, 2011

A laboratory study was carried out to establish the relative importance of verbal and gestural behavior, as well as their interaction, for perceived social influence in more or less competitive small groups. Forty women (psychology students) participated in leaderless small group discussions of different sizes (fourmember and eight-member): at the end, each member rated the perceived influence in decision-making of every other member. Verbal dominance coding is based on traditional quantitative conversational dominance (number of talk turns). Gestural coding (conversational, ideational, object-adaptor, self-adaptor gestures) is based on classical gesture classifications. Beside a substantial effect of verbal dominance, the main result is that frequency of object-adaptors and conversational (only in large groups) and ideational (in both small and large groups) gestures increases perceived influence scores particularly when the verbal dominance of the speaker is low.Se ha realizado un estudio de laboratorio para establecer la importancia de la conducta gestual y verbal, así como su interacción, en la influencia social percibida en grupos pequeños más o menos competitivos. Cuarenta mujeres (estudiantes de psicología) participaron en discusiones de grupo sin líder de diferentes tamaños (cuatro miembros y ocho miembros): al final, cada miembro valoró la influencia percibida en la toma de decisiones de cada uno de los otros miembros. El código de dominancia verbal está basado en la dominancia cuantitativa conversacional (número de turnos de habla). El código gestual (conversacional, ideacional, adaptador-objeto, gestos auto-adaptadores) está basado en clasificaciones gestuales clásicas. Además de un efecto sustancial de la dominancia verbal, el resultado principal es que la frecuencia de adaptadores-objeto y gestos conversacionales (sólo en grupos grandes) e ideacionales (tanto en grupos pequeños como grandes) incrementa los valores de influencia percibida, particularmente cuando la dominancia verbal del hablante es baja.(Received March 23 2010)(Revised October 08 2010)(Accepted November 22 2010)

Contribution Of Body Language On An Efficacious Interpersonal Communication

Man's being a social entity, is the result of his living together with others. In this way, we tend to recognize the world out of us as well as ourselves, by establishing relationships with them. By the help of this relationship, a communication medium becomes true. While the communication individual realized with the ones out of himself is called " interpersonal communication " , mentioned communication's being sustainable depends on the effectiveness of the communication. And to assure an effective communication medium, communication abilities must be effective, too. An effective communication is undeniably important especially in interpersonal communication. In this context, it is known that bodylanguage was effective in communications being effective and healthy. In this way, it is possible to say that body language had a serious contribution on making the messages sent and taken between source and taker more clear, and on their becoming more understandable and significant in interpersonal communication. Moving through this thoughts, importance of body language in an effective interpersonal communication had been supported with informations gained through literature review, and it had been explained by examples how important body language was in an effective communication and which way it contributed communication, in this study.

3-IJBGM-Nonverbal Communication An Influential.pdf

While one can choose to shut off all the linguistic outlets of communication, it is impossible to circumvent the non-verbal communication as the body keeps sending signals intentionally or subconsciously. It is, therefore, that the non-verbal cues become a powerful tool for controlling, organizing, directing and coordinating in any field which significantly involves interpersonal relationship and group dynamics. To be able to produce powerful messages through one's non-verbal signals and to be able to interpret non-verbal communication correctly are important skills one must master for effective management and workplace relationship. The present paper attempts to establish the role of non-verbal communication in effective management. It examines the case specifically by keeping under review the four areas of nonverbal communication: kinesics, proxemics, vocalics, and chronemics.

Verbal and Non-Verbal Communications in the Workplace

Mastering the Art of Effective Communication, 2023

This paper on communication was presented at the workshop titled "Speak Up, Write Well: Mastering the Art of Effective Communication in the Workplace" organized by S&P Global and HM2455C Program, UiTM Pulau Pinang Branch, Permatang Pauh Campus on 19 June 2023. Communication is about people interacting with each other. A good and effective communication must take into consideration of people's understanding, feelings, their moods and emotion. You can't separate all these, it's what makes a human, human. By including personal stories, you will form some personal connection, a sense in the back of your mind will emerge "oh, I know this guy". With that sense, you are more likely to absorb the message and understand them. Without the humanization of communication, the conversation will be very dry.