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- 1. Body Language MARTA BOTAN MIRIAM VILLAZON VALBUENA MARCELA MAFRA DEBORA SILVA
- 2. What is Body Language? A part of non verbal language Includes things such as stance, facial expressions, head nodding and gestures 70% of what we communicate may be non verbal Body language is specific to a culture
- 3. Proximity = Body Language? Video from CBC
- 4. How is British body language? Proximity: British people require lots of „privatespace‟ and they often stand much further away from each other than other nationalities, whilst talking to them Handshakes: a quick handshake is the normal Touching: not frequent and unusual. Never touch a person‟s head, it may be religiously offensive. firm „one-pump‟
- 5. Why so reserved? This has not always been the case. 16th Century whole time kissing each other. 18th Century “sentimental” Stiff upper lip emerging out of the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars. 1960’s stiff upper lip old-fashioned. Death of Diana reserved, decorum and restrain notions were to be abandoned. But, is still present.
- 6. Think about it: Is there a common body language? • Maybe gestures? • Perhaps facial expressions? • What about posture?
- 7. Universal Facial Expressions Theory Become a scientific hypothesis by Darwin – The Expression of emotions on Man and Annimals Evolutionary heritage Innate expressions and universal Happiness, sadness, surprise, and disgust anger, fear, (Ekman P., 2006)
- 8. Facial Expressions Might not be Universal Computational analyses Eastern: “culture-specific de-coding strategy” – Can‟t read „„fear‟‟ and „„disgust.‟‟ Eastern observers persistently stare the eye region. (Jack, R. E. at al, 2009)
- 9. (Jack, R. E. at al, 2009)
- 10. Social versus Professional Social: no expected behavior be yourself people surround you identify themselves Professional : rules expected behavior known subjects present/speak/learn international differences
- 11. Videos Social x Professional Topics for discussion
- 12. Conclusions ???
- 14. http://people.howstuffworks.com/nonverbal-communication.htm http://regulatorsforaccess.ca/docs/ManagingCulturalDifferencesEnglish.pdf http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8199951.stm http://westsidetoastmasters.com/resources/book_of_body_language/toc.html Ekman P (2006). Darwin and Facial Expression: A Century of Research in Review. 2nd ed. California: Malor Books. p11-12. Jack, R. E., C. Blais, C. Scheepers, P. G. Schyns, and R. Caldara (2009) Cultural confusions show that facial expressions are not universal. Current Biology 19: 1543–1548 Matsumoto , D. , Olide , A. , Schug , J. , Willingham , B. Callan , M.. (2009). Cross-Cultural Judgments of Spontaneous Facial Expressions of Emotion. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 33 (0), 213–238.
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