Kinesics

How can someone be communicating one thing with words, and another completely different message without making a sound? Nonverbal and more specifically kinesics betray how people are truly feeling all the time. As people, there are certain conscious and subconscious movements and gestures that happen on a daily basis and they all have different meanings. From what is actually trying to be communicated and how it’s being interpreted by someone else create a whole new level of communication to be analyzed and explored. What exactly is kinesics? “Kinesics is a systematic study of how human beings communicate through body movement and gesture. There is nothing new about the recognition that visually oriented animals, human or otherwise, stimulate …show more content…
Kinesics help people establish things like who should be trusted and who should be a leader in society. A study was conducted with 9 boys who all started out equal in the situation given to them. The study was looking for leadership in group decisions, and it found “that in this particular discussion among nine boys two leaders emerged. One leader spoke a great deal and had the highest percentage of initiated conversations. The other leader, however, only originated an average number of conversations but became a leader by virtue of his bodily movements, particularly those of the face and head. That is, he literally directed and to an extent controlled the group by head and facial movements.”(DeVito, 1968).
This research was in 1968 and it still applies today. There are countless websites giving people tips and idea on how to become a more effective leader or boss and strong body movements, full of confidence and assurance are among the top suggestions. This aspect that has not changed over the generations. If someone seems to know what they are doing and comes in with confidence not only in their voice but their body and posture, odds are that person will emerge as a leader and make more of the choices for the