Pick one concept from the assigned reading, not
already discussed, that you found useful or interesting and discuss it
One concept that I thought
was interesting this week was eye contact as a type of nonverbal communication.
It is somehow ingrain in us to use our eyes to react a certain way to bring out
a different message to our audience. I believe that eye contact gives a strong nonverbal
message. I agree that eye contact can be used to increase and decrease the
amount of interaction in the discussion because I can totally see this being
applied to my daily life. When I do not want to talk to someone, or I feel
uncomfortable with someone it shows by the way that I do not make too much eye
contact with him or her. When I don’t like someone in a group it also shows
through my eyes because I will never gear them towards that person. Often times when I am intrigue in the
conversation with someone I will keep my eye contact with him or her which can
tell them that I am fascinated in what they are saying and I am still
listening.
I agree with you that “eye contact gives a strong nonverbal message” and I use eye contact as you do, to “increase and decrease the amount of interaction…” What I find interesting is that I think breaking eye contact may be losing some of its nuances due to the rampant use of constant texting and checking text messages while conversing with someone. People can care deeply for another person and be very interested in what that person is saying, and yet still break eye contact to check their phone text messages or text someone. Then they go right back to listening and responding to the person who is face-to-face with them. I know it annoys me, but it is so commonly done now. I wonder if someday this will be expected behavior and no one will be annoyed.
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