Communication, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is the method in which two or more people converse “using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc.,” (Webster) Communication is broken down into two forms; verbal, which would consist of one using words and possibly sounds, and nonverbal, which would pertain to saying things but by using their actions.
Every day people wake up, they communicate but tend to overlook the nonverbal aspect of that communication and how valuable it is to any message that is trying to be relayed. More often than not, we send double messages by contradicting the verbal and nonverbal message. In doing so, we say one thing with mouths but …show more content…
Verbal communication is a better manner of delivering information. With verbal communication one can use words to exchange details. Verbal communication can be done in the form of oral or may also be hand written. Whereas nonverbal communication is a more “here and now”, making it harder to understand. Nonverbal communication does not include word usage but things such as eye rolling, a slouched body during a story, or yawning. There is a less likely chance of confusion in verbal communication between the people involved, but in nonverbal if the message is confused, the entire message has lost its …show more content…
This study was performed on forty-eight married couples. In the study, each partner was given the task to send a series of “ambiguous”(pg. 1135), standard, messages to their spouse and then had to try to interpret the messages they received from the other. According to the results found in this study “females were better encoders than males, particularly with regard to positive messages” (Noller pg.
Every day people wake up, they communicate but tend to overlook the nonverbal aspect of that communication and how valuable it is to any message that is trying to be relayed. More often than not, we send double messages by contradicting the verbal and nonverbal message. In doing so, we say one thing with mouths but …show more content…
Verbal communication is a better manner of delivering information. With verbal communication one can use words to exchange details. Verbal communication can be done in the form of oral or may also be hand written. Whereas nonverbal communication is a more “here and now”, making it harder to understand. Nonverbal communication does not include word usage but things such as eye rolling, a slouched body during a story, or yawning. There is a less likely chance of confusion in verbal communication between the people involved, but in nonverbal if the message is confused, the entire message has lost its …show more content…
This study was performed on forty-eight married couples. In the study, each partner was given the task to send a series of “ambiguous”(pg. 1135), standard, messages to their spouse and then had to try to interpret the messages they received from the other. According to the results found in this study “females were better encoders than males, particularly with regard to positive messages” (Noller pg.