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Section size for Nonverbal communication (48 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	4,306	4,306
Importance	4,848	8,395
Practical applications	3,547	3,547
History of research	8,945	8,945
First impression	1,890	1,890
Posture	2,773	2,773
Clothing	5,375	5,375
Gestures	3,412	7,423
Adapters	938	938
Symbolic	1,799	1,799
Conversational	1,274	1,274
Distance	1,282	1,282
Eye contact	6,966	6,966
Scent	46	46
Vocalics	2,025	2,025
Across cultures	20	23,321
Overview	3,769	3,769
Gestures	2,857	2,857
Speech-independent gestures	1,722	1,722
Displays of emotion	2,082	2,082
Nonverbal actions	2,934	2,934
Children's learning in indigenous American communities	8,407	8,407
Disadvantages of purely verbal communication across cultures	1,530	1,530
Genetics	1,214	1,214
Chronemics	825	2,256
Essential components	1,431	1,431
Movement and body position	32	9,525
Kinesics	1,898	1,898
Haptics: touching in communication	3,756	3,756
Proxemics	3,839	3,839
In relation to verbal communication	4,301	10,042
Interaction	197	5,741
Conflicting	1,367	1,367
Complementing	412	412
Substituting	488	488
Structure versus non-structure	701	701
Linguistic versus non-linguistic	370	370
Continuous and discontinuous	658	658
Learned versus innate	881	881
Left versus right-hemispheric processing	667	667
Clinical studies	21	11,660
Principles	5,334	5,334
Child comprehension	4,057	4,057
Comprehension of nonverbal facial cues	2,248	2,248
See also	723	723
References	30	30
Bibliography	5,499	5,499
External links	1,419	1,419
Total	115,115	115,115

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Importance[edit]

Nonverbal communication represents two-thirds of all communications. – how exactly was this number achieved? The sources don’t seem to mention that.--Ąžuolas (talk) 10:46, 3 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Adding in section on accessibility and screen readers[edit]

May want to consider adding information, especially in education, about the emergence of accessibility and screen readers and how they effect nonverbal communication.Clmoody1 (talk) 17:37, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi all, In the child comprehension study, why do you think there is such a drastic change between two- year olds and three year olds? How does this show that nonverbal communication evolves quickly? ReaganLarkin (talk) 02:16, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nonverbal Communication question[edit]

Does communicating through media outlets cause confusion due to lack of visual nonverbal communication?

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Scope of the article[edit]

The WP:LEADSENTENCE and the rest of the lead could do a better job at defining the scope of the article . For example, I assume this article does not include sign language, and yet, I don't see anything in the title or the lead that would exclude that from the article. Mathglot (talk) 06:33, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Redondance[edit]

Proxemics and other topics are explained twice in the article. Can someone edit it? I have other plans at the moment and I am not yet wiki-savvy. Lamadesbois (talk) 20:53, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Difference between verbal or non ver bal 2409:4051:4E0D:734F:0:0:C40A:E114 (talk) 16:41, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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