Kinesics and Nonverbal Communication: Analyzing the Relationships between Emotional Expressions and Body Gestures Kinesics (or kinesics, from the ancient Greek for “movement”) is the study of human behavior in its nonverbal form. A nonverbal form of communication is the transmission of information without the help of words, through body language, which includes the nature of gestures, movements of the head, torso and eyes. Let's analyze the relationship between body movements and the emotional component of behavior. First of all, it is necessary to take into account the main feature of nonverbal communication: it is less subject to control by consciousness than verbal. As a rule, a person is aware of the information that he speaks to another, but may not pay attention to the signals transmitted by the body. To read these signals, psychologists use a process called decoding. The success of decoding depends on many factors, including the psychological state of a person and his individual behavioral characteristics, as well as belonging to a particular culture. Kinesics is one of the categories of non-verbal communication, along with which there is haptics, or takesics (communication through various touches, sensory (communication based on communication with the environment through taste, hearing and smell), vocalics (vocal qualities of speech that give various additional shades of meaning to words), proxemics (communication based on the nature of distancing), chronemics (attitude to someone else's time). Kinesics It is not without reason that it occupies a leading role in the above list. And its most informative section is rightfully considered facial expressions. The face and its expressions occupy a huge part in non-verbal communication. Just imagine what a smile or a frown can tell. appears in our field of vision. When analyzing facial expressions, we must take into account the fact that in different cultures facial expressions can manifest themselves in different ways. Take, for example, the difference in the movements of the articulatory apparatus, due to the difference in languages ​​and dialects spoken by representatives of certain cultures. However, there are emotions that are expressed equally in all cultures - happiness, anger, fear and sadness. The emotion of fear is indicated by raised and drawn eyebrows, as well as raised upper eyelids and tense lower eyelids, pulled up. The lips, as a rule, are tense, slightly pulled back, the mouth is open. An angry person is indicated by eyebrows drawn together above the bridge of the nose and a strong frown. The cheekbones are tense, the lips are clenched and pressed tightly. You can observe the nodules, the rounding of the eyes looking from under the brows, the tilt of the head. The sad person has slightly closed eyes, an absent look, drooping corners of the lips and a slightly protruding upper lip. The happy person is betrayed by a smile; he seems to glow from within: his gaze is filled with liveliness; facial expressions are lively and cheerful. Sincere joy is often accompanied by laughter. There are a huge number of facial descriptions in scientific literature. American psychologist Paul Ekman proposed a technique called FAST, according to which the face is divided into three horizontal zones, after which the main universal emotions expressed through facial expressions are determined. This method of recording emotions according to zones allows you to more accurately register facial movements. It is common in medicine and business communication. Pantomime Pantomime is understood as the transmission of information through gestures of the whole body. The meaning of certain gestures may vary in different cultures, however, as in the case of facial expressions, there is a certain common emotional core. In addition, with all the differences in cultures, the intensity of human gestures inevitably increases with the increase in emotional arousal. Among the universal ones are the following gestures: Communication gestures - greetings, prohibitions, farewells, questions, denials, attracting attention, etc. Evaluating gestures - approving, unsatisfactory, denying and.