Corey has been called to jury duty for a criminal case. He wants to prepare by studying deceptive behaviors and asks you what you learned in your study of interpersonal communication

What specific information about nonverbal communication and deception cues can you give Corey?

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will vary but should focus on leakage cues, such as increased use of adaptors (scratching, shifting weight) and vocal cues (shaky voice, speech hesitations). Deceptive people often exhibit random body movements and arm movements, may rock back and forth, shake a leg or a foot if they are sitting, or may fidget. It is important, however, for the answer to convey the fact that nonverbal communication is ambiguous, so not all that is witnessed absolutely equates to lying behavior.

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Read the following conversation and then answer the question. Marissa: You’ve been on the phone for an hour—get off! Nicole: Okay. Marissa: Now! [tells her friend she will call her later and hangs up.] Marissa: Thank you. Nicole: Ask a little more nicely next time. Consider the first pairing of messages in this conversation. Marissa says “You’ve been on the phone for an hour—get off!” and Nicole says “Okay.” This message pairing is an example of ______.

A. submissive symmetry B. competitive symmetry C. a transition D. complementarity

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According to the textbook, how many levels of conflict are there?

A. one B. three C. five D. seven

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Asking your audience to accept something because it represents the customs of our

society, rather than because the issues justify its acceptance, commits the fallacy of appeal to (a) ignorance. (b) the people. (c) authority. (d) tradition.

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According to Fine & Buzzanell, (2000) leadership as ________ means "doing things for others that enable them to do their jobs_ taking obstacles out of employees' way rather than putting them up."

Fill in the blank with correct word

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