Non Verbal Communication Essay

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Introduction
Unfortunately, everybody has non-verbal communication whether you like it or not. Non-verbal communications are involuntary human responses to different emotions. For example when people are angry they might roll eyes or cross their arms, and when their nervous they might shake their legs. These are just three of the many non-verbal tells/ cues that people have.
Being aware you one’s own tells is important because you have to learn to control them. When you’re a kid all you have to do is stomp your feet, slam the bedroom door, or even roll your eyes to express your anger or frustration. Unfortunately, as you get older and become an adult those methods are less than socially acceptable.
When you deal with an employer or colleague
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That’s all I have to say for nonverbal reactions when it comes to this subject. If someone comes up behind me and scars me I jump and scream. If they scare me while I’m sleeping then my reaction is to kick them as proven countless times by my older brothers.
Nervous
When I’m nervous my hands get sweaty and my heart beats really fast. This happens to me when I’m at a job interview or I’m in trouble with my parents or teachers. Although the longer I stay there and talk to them the less nervous I get. For some reason I also get nervous when I see other people cry. I tend to look away when other people cry or pretend not to care. For example when my best friend was crying about her sick horse and could not look her in the eyes for the life of me. Instead I just kind of passed her off to another one of our friends. Another nonverbal cue is that I laugh when I’m nervous which either pisses people off or lightens the mood; either way it makes me happy. If it pisses people off then there anger makes me happy. I know that sounds bad but the reality it that is someone gets angry over me laughing then how can I not find that funny.
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Most of them are rather childish for example the fact that I look away when people cry or when I cover my noise when I don’t like the smell of something. Both of these are nonverbal communications that would like to get rid of. The reason I want to get rid of them is because first looking away from someone when they are upset is not only mean but it is also very insensitive. And second, I’d imagine that there are many different smells that I will have to encounter, so covering my noise in disgust could be considered very

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