The most interesting concept that I encountered from the class is would be nonverbal communication’s chronemics. I knew before that nonverbal communication is important as well, considering the impact of first impressions and how verbal messages are interpreted differently based on nonverbal cues. However, I had not given a lot of thought about how present and future time may affect human behavior and thus used as nonverbal messages. There is the dimension of psychological time orientation, involving the way that an individual may think about time, view time as, and experience it. One may focus on the present or the future, or even feel anxious about time obligations from both time perspective categories. There is the way that bodies may influence the nonverbal behaviors that one exhibits, the biological time orientation. Finally there is the cultural time orientation where one’s culture influences the perspective of time. Time is important and how one views and spends it determine how one acts within a daily basis.
I can also agree that nonverbal communication chronemics is an interesting concept. Nonverbal communication is very important. You cannot not communicate with nonverbal messages. Nonverbal communication is very important in the communication world. First impressions can be very affected by somebody's nonverbal communication. I think it is very interesting how the "body influences nonverbal messages that one exhibits". Cultural time orientation is also an interesting topic when it comes down to nonverbal messages.
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