Explain how gestures and facial expressions vary in meaning across cultures, giving at least one example of each

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: There is much variation in gestures and their meanings among different cultures. Examples are waving, thumbs up symbol, pointing your index finger, and bowing. Gestures are not universal. The wide variations in facial communication that you observe in different cultures seem to reflect different attitudes about what reactions are permissible in public rather than differences in the way humans show emotions.

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The newspaper's style guide, however, asks the writers to write "president" in uppercase while referring to a particular individual, such as "President Mukherjee." The aim of this instruction is to reduce confusion among its readers and to a) promote consistency among its writers. b) limit creativity of its writers. c) promote the daily's unique identity. d) weed out poor writers.

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What is the goal of a crisis communication professional?

What will be an ideal response?

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Statisticians consider 834 to be the minimum number of people needed to guarantee a margin of error lower than 5 percent

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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Which of the following represents internal noise?

A.) daydreaming B.) a blinking light C.) draft from the air conditioner D.) teacher talking about material unrelated to the class E.) a lawnmower going by the window

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