Glossary
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Behavioral Attitude
Proactive attitude of trying to change someone’s behavior.
Closing
Who withdraws into oneself while drawing back or becoming tense!
Cognitive future
One of the four quadrants used in the movement of the eyes; it corresponds to a nonconscious movement of the glance at the top right.
Cognitive past
One of the four quadrants used in the movement of the eyes; corresponds to a nonconscious movement of the glance at the top left.
Congruence
The physical attitude of a human being corresponds to his mental attitude. It is congruent.
Conscious (gesture)
Gesture essential to the description (ex: He moved towards this door)
Control
Rigidity under stress
Disguised emotions
These are emotions that are not really felt, but which we seek to convey. We, therefore, express emotion while feeling another one at the same time.
Emotion
Expression of an interior feeling (sensation) resulting in a gesture, a movement or a micro-movement
Emotional future
One of the four quadrants used in the movement of the eyes; it corresponds to a nonconscious movement of the glance at the bottom right.
Emotional past
One of the four quadrants used in the movement of the eyes; corresponds to a nonconscious movement of the glance at the bottom left.
Empathy
A fusion of nonverbal communication: We feel the same emotions as the other and we are in the same bodily state as he or she. We identify with the other. This definition is more in keeping with the discoveries of emotional intelligence than with the traditional psychological dialogue, which describes empathy as a process with which it is possible to distance oneself.
Impulse
A very short-term state of being which can change itself or not, into emotion and which is seen by a micro-movement
Incoherence
By definition, a gesture which does not seem consistent with what is stated after the fact
Induction
The reasoning starts from a premise. Bringing in the proposal itself, what we seek to observe. Introducing the perspective that we seek to demonstrate by bringing it to the core (center) of the demonstration. Example: “I think this person is sad because I observed this and that.” By this reasoning, we refuse to read anything other than sadness. Induction immediately removes any scientific claim to reasoning.
Inference
The reasoning which comes from what was observed. A logical operation by which a proposal, by virtue of its link with other proposals already held for true, is accepted. The reasoning is based on what was noticed. By looking at this and that, therefore it may mean that. Reasoning must be deduced.
Inner attitude
A movement that expresses the inner state of the present emotion
Item
Gesture or movement that describes an attitude; (a hand gesture, body position on the chair, blinking of the eyes, etc…)
Lateral
Which tilts to the sides; particularly important when analyzing the movements of the head
Mental library
Contrary to the truth, action to lie, to twist the truth, omitting details
The accumulation of images in our mind, allowing the reading of nonverbal communication
Microattitudes
This is one of two forms of micro-movements, the other form of micro-movements being made by micro-reactions. Micro-attitudes are different from micro-reactions simply because the hand comes into action when they are expressed. We can identify three types of micro-attitudes: micro-scratches, micro-caresses, and micro-fixations.
Microcaress
Narcissistic retreat into oneself in comparison with a feeling that is unconsciously expressed: a gesture of self-contact. It is addressed to oneself, when it is performed in front of his speaker, with the desire to see him get closer to us. e.g.: to stroke the left internal forearm; can also express the need for comfort: e.g.: “To wash the hands» can show discomfort and the gesture of micro-caress comforts us.
Microfixation
The motionless posture of concentration or total relaxation
Micromovement
Concept and surreptitious movement: There are two types of micro-movements: micro-attitudes and micro-reactions
Microreactions
Surreptitious movements of the face or the body.
Micro scratches
Unconscious itching, which is not caused by allergies
Non-conscious (gesture)
Also called an unconscious gesture; the person who produces a non-conscious gesture cannot be aware of it. Ex: Lower Sampaku
Nonverbal communication
Which excludes words. Appeared for the first time in the English language in 1956.
Palpebral fissure
Space separating the higher and lower eyelids.
Prehension (gesture)
A gesture that establishes the relationship between the body and all objects which can come into contact with it.
Projective (gesture)
Projecting one’s feelings by gestures inviting others in the communication. Gesture describing nothing in particular, which serves to emphasize the emotion
Pronation
Movement of the articulation that causes a rotation of the hand, which allows the palm of the hand to turn downwards or inwards. Pronation indicates a closed mind and sometimes a stiffness under stress (hands) or a certain control (feet). Often seen on the axes of the wrists and ankles – stiffness
Quadrants of the eye
The movement of the eye is divided into four quadrants.
Rotational
From right to left or from left to right: Important in understanding the movements of the neck or the ankles.
Sagittal
From front to back: Serves to describe certain movements of the neck. Distress
Sanpaku
Top sanpaku: the white of the eye is visible under the superior eyelid. There is a sign of great distress when the white is visible underneath the eye. The emotional state identified in the area of the eye above and below the iris.
Lower sanpaku: the white of the eye is visible under the lower eyelid
Semi-conscious (gesture)
A gesture that is done unconsciously, but can also be identified by both the person who carries it out and the one who receives it. The majority of the gestures are semi-conscious.
Supination
Movement contrary to pronation: The rotation of the hand therefore consists of turning the palm upward or outward. Supination indicates an openness (hands) or carelessness (feet). Often seen on the axes of the wrists and ankles – fluidity
Symbolic (gesture)
Conscious cultural gesture representing what one seeks to convey (example: this is O.K.).
Unconscious
The unconscious is what is not conscious. The concept does not overlap with the reality of the psychoanalytic concept.
GLOSSARY – OTHER TERMINALOGY RELATED TO NON VERBAL COMMUNICATION
Axes
Asperger
Asymmetry of the face
Attitude
Anger
Arm-cross
Arm-swing
Autism
Body alignment
Body language
Body movement
Brain
Communication
Cry
Distance
Disgust
Eye contact
Eye-blink
Eyebrow-lower
Eyebrow-raise
Eyes
Face
Facial expression
Facial recognition
Fear
Feet
Fight-or-flight
Fingertip cue
Fist
Handshake
Hands
Hand-behind-head
Hand-behind-body
Happiness
Head
Head-nod
Human brain
Hypothalamus
Kinesics
Kiss
Lie
Lips
Love sign
Men
Mouth
Nose
Palm
Posture
Rapport
Sadness
Seduction
Self-touch
Shoulders
Sign
Signal
Smile
Space
Territory
Tone of voice
Walk
Woman
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