The Importance of Non-Verbal Communication
February 5, 2019
Non-verbal communication (NVC) has been studied in academia since the 1950’s. A pioneering study at UCLA indicated that up to ninety-three percent of communication effectiveness is determined by non-verbal cues (Mehrabian, 1971). Another study determined that non-verbal messages are seen as more reliable than verbal messages (Zuckerman, DePaulo, and Rosenthal, 1981).
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