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Non-Verbal Communication practice

Eye contact and lies
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Read faces, posture, gesture, and space
How meaning travels without words — facial expression and micro-expressions, eye contact and gaze, posture and gesture, proxemics (personal space), paralanguage (tone, pace, pauses), and touch. Items teach what each channel reliably signals and, just as important, where popular claims outrun the evidence: the “93% of communication is non-verbal” myth, the limits of lie detection from behaviour, and how much culture changes the reading. Every explanation glosses its terms and ends with a portable rule you can use in a real conversation.
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Curriculum

197 concepts across 26 chapters, from foundations through advanced practice — each one a concept the adaptive question bank can teach and test.

A. What non-verbal communication is: the channels

8

B. The 93% claim: what Mehrabian actually measured

7

C. Functions: how non-verbal behavior works with speech

7

D. Principles: what non-verbal communication is like

8

E. Replication literacy: how to read a non-verbal claim

8

F. The face: musculature, FACS and action units

8

G. Universality and construction: the basic-emotion debate

8

H. Smiles, display rules and masking

7

I. Micro-expressions: the claim and the evidence

7

J. Oculesics: gaze, eye contact and the eyes

8

K. Kinesics: the gesture taxonomy

7

L. Gesture and cognition

7

M. Posture, orientation and immediacy

7

N. Power posing: the rise and fall of a finding

8

O. Proxemics: distance, territory and crowding

8

P. Haptics: touch as a channel

8

Q. Paralanguage: the voice as a channel

8

R. Vocal cues to emotion, identity and status

6

S. Chronemics: time as a message

7

T. Appearance, artifacts and environment

8

U. Culture: display rules and what actually varies

8

V. Deception: what behavior does and does not reveal

9

W. Rapport, synchrony and mimicry

7

X. Impression formation and the biases in reading others

8

Y. Mediated and digital non-verbal communication

8

Z. Decoding skill: measuring it, training it, using it responsibly

7
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