Example Of Nonverbal Communication

Nonverbal communication is the way we communicate without using words. It 's our facial expressions, body postures, eye contacts and hand gestures. An example is everyone uses body language in different ways while we communicate. The types of nonverbal communication is socialized with proxemics, oculesics, and posture.

The location I choose to perform my violation of a cultural norm was in the cafeteria. I used the cafeteria that is in the Gordon Student Center. After trying to decide which cultural norm to experiment with, I choose to invade someone else 's personal space. The plan I created was going up to someone in the cafeteria, and intentionally sitting close to the person to invade a person’s personal space. I would not communicate with the individual so the interaction would be silence.

The social situation was between a person, and myself that I sat with in the cafeteria. Our interaction was awkward, and there …show more content…
My prediction of the person response of my violation was different of how he responded back. I wanted the person to be creep out or feel uncomfortable. If someone was leaning to me really close I would of said something to them like do you mind? Because I think it is inappropriate to lean to someone that you never have interaction with. The next violation was oculesics when I was sitting really close to the person I kept staring at him while the person was questions me questions. My predict I thought the person would of responded to feel that I had a staring problem. When I was sitting with the person in the cafeteria posture was sitting too close to him. I used postures by headnoting to the person when they were trying to speak to me. I felt like the guy posture was a lot of hand signals. I predict the guy would of use facial expression but he did not. I did disobey the person 's personal space by experimental my violations on