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Body language
Non-verbal communication using body parts.
Industry: Communication
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energy displacement
Communication; Body language
Actions designed to relieve a person's pent up energy, such as rubbing body parts together.
encroaching
Communication; Body language
Actions which violate a persons personal space. It can be standing too close to somebody, standing above somebody who is sitting down, or raising your voice to shut down somebody else.
emphatic gestures
Communication; Body language
Actions which enhance the impact of spoken words, such as finger pointing or foot stomping on certain syllables.
emotional suppression
Communication; Body language
When a person tries to avoid broadcasting their modd through nonverbal gestures.
baseline
Communication; Body language
The gestures that a person makes when they are "normal". Understand a person's regular movements helps to distinguish and read their later actions.
barriers
Communication; Body language
Actions that set up an obstacle between the performer and something they do not like, for example, crossed arms.
