Research Plan

Purpose:
The purpose of my paper is to prove that the Understanding non-verbal communication is even more important to commutation then communication by its self. Body language provides clues on how the communication is going.

Research Question:
My focus is to decide if the Understanding non-verbal communication (body language) is just as important, if not more important as verbal communication.

What is needed:
A detailed understanding of body language:
1. Arm/Hand Gestures Arm/Hand Gestures
• Rubbing of the hands or palm: expecting something good to occur
• Loosely clinched hand: indicates confidence and a relaxed state of mind
• Loosely clinched hands in front of face or placed on a table; positive focus
• Tight clinched hands indicates that a person is frustrated or may have a hostal attitude
• Tight hands below stomach are represents negative thinking
• Hands placed in a “praying “gesture with fingers pointing upward and touching indicates a know it all attitude.
• Hands place in a downward “praying” gesture indicates that the person is willing to listen and take orders.
• Griping Hands, arms and wrist:
• Holding you’re held up high, chin out and hands behind back clinched usually portrays superior confidence
• Hands placed on hips also shows confidence
• Thumb Gestures:
• Very easy to understand thumb up everything is good, while thumb down everything is bad. (two thumbs up).
• Arm Gestures:
• Arms folded tightly across the chess that person maybe threating to leave. This is a nervous, and defensive attitude.
• If you add a leg cross to the above arm cross that person is extremely tense.
• If the person has arms crossed and keeps their thumbs out they are still defensive however they feel that they are superior.
• Folded arms across chest with one had against the chest and the other facing palm out
• portrays a confused state.
• If arms are folded and fists are clinched that person maybe hostile.
• If arms are folded near the stomach area the person is trying to destess and or in a passion to understand.
Website: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/894740/Body-Language-Hand-and-Arms-Gestures
2. Eye contact
• Looking up: When a person looks upwards they are often thinking.
• Looking down: can be a signal of submission, however, In many cultures where eye contact is a rude or dominant signal, people will look down when talking with others in order to show respect.
• Looking sideways: looking away from what is in front of them or looking towards something that has taken their interest.
• Lateral movement: Eyes moving from side-to-side can indicate shiftiness and lying, as if the person is looking for an escape route in case they are found out. Lateral movement can also happen when the person is being conspiratorial, as if they are checking that nobody else is listening. Eyes may also move back and forth sideways (and sometimes up and down) when the person is visualizing a big picture and is literally looking it over.
• Gazing: Looking at their forehead or not at them indicates disinterest. This may also be shown by defocused eyes where the person is 'inside their head' thinking about other things.
• Glancing: Glancing at something can betray a desire for that thing, for example glancing at the door can indicate a desire to leave.
• Glancing at a person can indicate a desire to talk with them. It can also indicate a concern for that person's feeling when something is said that might upset them.
Website: http://changingminds.org/techniques/body/parts_body_language/eyes_body_language.htm

3. Facial expression
• Yawning – sleepy, bored
• Pursing lips – to hold back emotion
• Tearing up and crying – Emotion
• Sweating – feeling uneasy
• Blushing – embarrassed, ill at ease
• Raising eyebrows – surprised, shocked
Website: http://www.nosweatpublicspeaking.com/non-verbal-communication-element-2facial-expressions/

Other sources:
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/Body_Language.htm
http://www.speechmastery.com/public-speaking-gestures.html
http://changingminds.org/techniques/body/body_language.htm
and other ones that were listed in previous blog.