GROUP 3'S WEBPAGE ON NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION

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Welcome to our website on nonverbal communication! We are students at U-Mass/Boston currently taking Professor Michael Milburn's class, Psychology of Communication. Nonverbal communication is interpersonal communication though nonlinguistic means. Nonverbal communication is communication through gestures, facial expressions, movements, posturing and so on. For example, the sticking out of the tongue may communicate teasing; pointing the thumb to the floor or the "thumbs down" sign, may represent that something is bad, or that there is some disagreement. Nonverbal communication can be vary ambiguous, especially cross culturally. Some gestures in one culture have total adverse meanings in another. For example, the "O.K." gesture in North American culture, symbolizes money in Japanese culture, and in many Eastern European cultures the "O.K." symbol we know as a positive gesture has a very lewd negative meaning. Now, here are some links to other web pages on nonverbal communication. We are sure that the information you find will be interesting, helpful, and above all, entertaining!!!

Just for fun: see if you can guess what we are trying to communicate through our body language in each of the pictures! The answers appear at the bottom!!!

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Because we use body language so much in our everyday lives (I know I have used little "hand gestures" once or twice in the past), it is important that we know how to communicate effectively nonverbally. The following are several links that show us how to do just that.

Here is a site that shows you six ways to improve your nonverbal communication skills. Although the information in the site is geared towards teachers and helping them improve their skills in the classroom, you can nevertheless use the info to better your own skills. Check it out:

http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/facdev/6nvcomm.html

Here is a site that also shows several ways to increase one's nonverbal skills:

http://maine.maine.edu/~zubrick/tren5.html

Finally, here is a site that discusses the potential problem of one's NONVERBAL messages conflicting with one's VERBAL messages:

http://www.bus.okstate.edu/quible/fbludau.htm

Hey, the following site doesn't have much to do with nonverbal communication, BUT it is entertaining nevertheless. It's my own personal website dedicated to the LADIES! Check it out!

http://oocities.com/SouthBeach/Shores/2339/fernando.html

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Here are a couple of sites to further define nonverbal communication. These sites should give you some history on the research of nonverbal communication and why nonverbal communication is important in everyday life.

http://zen.sunderland.ac.uk/~hb5jma/1stbersn.htm

http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~enhF94/kinesics.html

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~hechtma/nonverbal.html

http://zen.sund.ac.uk/~hb5jma/pam.htm

Here is a site that discusses sign language. Learn it!

http://where.com/scott.net/asl/

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This site explores the use of nonverbal communication by gang members to communicate with one another. If you're a citizen that's concerned about gangs infiltrating your neighborhood and want to know what signs to look for, you might want to look into this site.

http://www.courses.edu/gangs/gang-signs.html

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Here is a site that discusses how unconscious thoughts are communicated through body language:

http://www.vol.it/mirror/worldtrans/TP/TP1/TP1-57.HTML

PICTURE # 1- SORRY, TOO MANY HAND GESTURES TO DISCUSS!

PICTURE # 2- "Sorry, but you're boring me."

PICTURE # 3- "DUH! No shit, Sherlock!"

PICTURE # 4- "This sucks!"

PICTURE # 5- "Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah!"

PICTURE # 6 (THE PROVOCATIVE GESTURE)- "Hey, good looking!"