Perhaps the best-known painting in the world, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is famous for the ambiguity in her facial expression. Examine the effects of such ambiguity on interpreting nonverbal communication.

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Nonverbal communication is often ambiguous and can mean different things to different people. Facial expression is one of the most important aspects of nonverbal communication, and research has indicated that some expressions are universal across cultures. The ambiguity in the Mona Lisa’s facial expression thus simultaneously reflects an essential fact about nonverbal communication (its ambiguity) while contradicting a human need to interpret facial expressions.

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