From the course: Communicating Nonverbally
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Sending positive nonverbal signals
From the course: Communicating Nonverbally
Sending positive nonverbal signals
- People often get overwhelmed when thinking about body language, because we are constantly sending nonverbal signals back and forth. It's hard to remember every single meaning of a message. Instead, I want to teach you a different framework for learning nonverbal. An easier way to think about nonverbal is by putting everything you see into two basic buckets, micropositives, and micronegatives. In 1973, MIT researcher Mary P.Rowe began looking at the small nonverbal cues humans send to each other. We call these micromessages. She found that we send, often unintentionally, small nonverbal messages to others, through body language, facial expressions, and voice tone. And that these messages are interpreted as either positive or negative. Lets start with the positive cues. I call these micropositives, because they're small nonverbal signals of engagement, rapport, and curiosity. We can both decode these cues, and encode these…
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