Gestures
spoken words.
Gestures include movement of the hands,
face, or other parts of the body.
Examples
Hands on knees: indicates readiness.
Hands on hips: indicates impatience.
Lock your hands behind your back: indicates
self-control.
Locked hands behind head: states confidence.
Sitting with a leg over the arm of the chair:
suggests indifference.
Legs and feet pointed in a particular direction:
the direction where more interest is felt.
Crossed arms: indicates submissiveness.
Facial expressions
A facial expression results from one or more
motions or positions of the muscles of the face.
These movements convey the emotional state of
the individual to observers.
Facial expressions are a form of nonverbal
communication.
They are a primary means of conveying social
information among humans, but also occur in
most other mammals and some other animal
species.
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