In what ways do understanding the concepts of immediacy, arousal, and dominance help us
understand how our nonverbal cues are interpreted?
What will be an ideal response?
* Immediacy cues increase our sensory awareness of others. If people move away from us, we
will probably interpret that as a negative reaction, and vice versa. Touch is another immediacy
cue that implies closeness or a preference to stay away. High feelings of affection may be
accompanied by more immediacy cues. We tend to reciprocate immediacy cues from others,
including proximity, body orientation, eye contact, facial expressions, gestures, posture, touch,
and voice.
* People who are aroused and interested in us show animation in their face, voice, and gestures.
Understanding these aspects of arousal can make us aware of when others are interested in us
and we in them.
* Dominance is often exercised nonverbally by the use of space, eye contact, facial expression,
touch, voice, gesture, and posture. Our dominance over other people or vice versa is interpreted
by others according to how we use these cues.
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