John Dionisio HCOM 100 Shari Selnick 3 March 2017 Nonverbal extra Credit (HCOM) In this extra credit assignment, I was able to interact with old high school friends and meet new people the past week. However, I decided to change my daily appearance before I spoke to these individuals. Before I conducted my experiment, I chose a local Starbucks near my old high school to conduct this experiment. It was an interesting assignment because I didn’t know how much a person’s appearance can affect the understanding of one. I stayed in this local Starbucks at Pasadena and the attire I chose was very ‘nerdy’ and ‘uptight’. I wore a blue striped polo, camouflaged shorts, new balances, a large backpack, and socks that wore improperly aligned. I felt very …show more content…
I didn’t want to change my personality because the point was that I wanted to ask the people’s first impression after the conversation. The first person, that I approached was an old high school friend named ‘Lily’. She was two years younger than me. Lily and I were really close friends in high school, and seeing a different appearance of myself affected her judgment. We talked about college applications and old high school experience. One thing I noticed was the lack of eye contact between us. I wasn’t sure if she didn’t want to talk to me. But after having the conversation with Lily, I asked her current impression of me. She told me that I looked very ‘responsible’. I asked her to clarify the response and Lily elaborated by explaining how college changed me for the better good. After receiving that response, she started complimenting me for my achievements in the past. I was very flattered hearing this from an old friend. I found the conversation …show more content…
I decided to initiate the conversation by asking their opinion about “what liberty means to them”. This question was for my history assignment, however, I decided to incorporate the topic into my conversation. These college students were open to start a conversation. After talking about diversity and multicultural backgrounds. I asked them the same question about their first impression of me. I got multiple responses, one of them taught I was a liberal-rights activist, the other two gave the impression that I was just a genuinely a nice person. This conversation gave me the understanding that topics that an individual imposes can also contribute to learning what type of person one
... relationship and whether we were good for each other. It turned out that we held the same morals and were looking for the same qualities in each other. But aside from that it was light and fun conversation.
Person A was a male around the age of 24. He was tall and thin with a short dark haircut and brown eyes. The first nonverbal observation I made of Person A was the way he was dressed. He had on a blue-collared, button-down shirt and a pair of dark jeans. His clothing was coordinated with a pair of brown suede shoes. I think he took time to put this outfit together. Another nonverbal observation I made was his smell. As soon as I approached the table, I caught a subtle whiff of male cologne. The smell, however, was not overbearing.
In society, appearance is an important entity on how we live our lives and how others perceive an individual. Appearance also can dictate how we perceive ourselves and it can also guide how our future can formulate, like occupation and personal endeavors. In three works of literature I will illustrate how appearance is an extensive focus, and how appearance is used in the works to display personality and to display how the story will proceed and conclude.
Jumbling up my words and needlessly long pauses are a common occurrence in my attempts to converse with people. With this in mind, I set out to communicate with the fine folks in the food court of Cordova Mall. Normally I would shy away from such a task, but for my own personal benefit this was the best option. The main goal of this experiment was to record how the subjects reacted to my presence while they dine. My expectations were for people to feel awkward about my being there and want me to leave, I was quickly proven otherwise. Two of the tests shattered my belief that I would be
Allen, F. L. (2003, December). Dress for the Occasion: Your Attire - Your Image. Retrieved April, 5 2005, from http://www.blacksocietypages.com/advice.html
My heart was thumping wildly, “What if I mess up?”, “What if I ask the wrong questions?” “What if I get them mixed up?” I was just before panicking. I arrived at the coffee shop where Mrs. Cleantech and I agreed to get together. We decided to meet at 3:00 to avoid the large lunch and supper crowds. What timing! We met at the front door! I asked the hostess if we could have some privacy. She was accommodating and guided us to a small table in the rear corner of the room. My confidence was rising, I think I was appropriately dressed! I was wearing my black slacks with a light green jacket. Mrs. Joe Cleantech was wearing simple clothes; brown slacks and a yellow sweater. We shook hands, introduced ourselves and sat down.
In this assignment, we made observations of nonverbal behaviors which are utilized in everyday life as a form of communication whether we know it or not. There are many ways that individuals’ are capable of communicating without even saying anything, such as, an individual rolling their eyes can display they’re annoyed, smiling at someone can portray that the individual is happy, and so on. Nonverbal communication uses many different aspects of life to portray meaning, such as, behaviors, attributes, symbols, or objects (Seiler, Beall, & Mazer, 2015, p. 109). When partaking in this assignment, I found that utilizing nonverbal communication was much easier than verbal, but I did feel peculiar when participating in these acts. The goal for the assignment was to find a nonverbal norm that we wanted to violate, and then we needed to violate this norm three different times. Once we had violated the norm we needed to observe and analyze the reactions we received. The norms that we had the option to violate were kinesics, oculesics, haptics, etc. I just so happen to pick kinesics, which is using movements or gestures to portray nonverbal communication.
This said woman was my mother. She was a flight attendant at the time for US Airways and despite being busy 24/7, she tried her best to make time for both me and my education. From what I was told, my mother was valedictorian of her high school class and was had many extra- curricular activities to credit for. Despite being a great student and having tons of friends, there was something else going on in my life at the time, in which very few people in my circle were privy to…
Nonverbal communication is rich in meaning. Everyone communicates through nonverbal gestures and motions. I realized that you can decipher a lot from an individual or individuals by just paying close attention to what they do, and that words are not really necessary. Watching two people interacting, I figured that they are really close by their space communication, eye language, and body movements.
Ever since their invention many centuries ago, clothes have been used as a way of communicating. The message communicated relies on a number of factors including the social background of both the communicator and the receiver, and the context in which the message is communicated. Although at times the exact message or symbolism one is trying to portray may not be clear, it is evident that clothing has long been embraced as one of the best ways to project one’s desired personal image to those around them.
In a public setting like a high school, how a student or students dress, can have a negative effect on the entire student body, even with a dress code. On
This interview helped me gain an excellent idea about a real interview situation. I took this opportunity seriously as I knew that this might be the only situation where I could judge myself before facing a real interview. Therefore I prepared myself to be as professional as possible. I believe I was right on selecting my dress, as my team member Nathan Copey said,
Anybody that knows me knows that my passion and goals in life have to deal with fashion. If I could be anything in this world I would love to be a designer of some sort or at least be in the industry. When it comes to clothing and style it just comes easy one of the easiest things I’m good at. Fashion is an art form it allows you to express your view on style anyway you choose. And to me I feel like nobody has the right to judge that. Style hasn’t always come easy to be though just like everything else it takes time and practice it’s still a work in progress. When I look back to my middle school and early high school years I wonder deeply about my choices, middle school had to have been the worst. I was going through a colored jeans faze, I would wear bright yellow, honey mustard yellow, sky blue, purple, and pink. If somebody were to name a color I probably had jeans that color. It gets worse though because I would have the worst possible combination choice of shoes to go along with a matching bead necklace and bracelet set, followed by a grey or navy blue uniform shirt. It’s clear I had no idea what I was doing the best part is I was being myself and that’s all that matters. No matter how much I think my style has grown I’m only human and will look back and probably wonder why I wore the outfit I’m wearing sitting here writing this essay.
Fashion, psychology and the sociological perspective have long been perceived as mutually exclusive concepts. However, is there a possibility that a trinity exists in the former? To illustrate, it is evident that throughout history fashion has influenced society as a whole and has mirrored its aspects i.e. economical and sociological. Furthermore, this influence has developed to be perceived psychologically where individuals identify with fashion in the sense of translating visual information showing their personal views and attitudes. To that effect, what is fashion? Traditionally and in the literary sense, fashion is defined as ‘a popular trend, especially in styles of dress and ornament or manners of behavior’ . However,
Clothing is something that defines a person, and allows society to have an outlook on an individual’s lifestyle and beliefs. Unlike criticizing other material things like a car, a home or even something as simple as a television set, criticism of clothing is very personal. This suggests that there is a high correlation between clothing and personal identity and values. (Breward, pg.1) Clothing in a sense has the ability to communicate thought. However, similarly to art interpretations, this does not mean that any two people will perceive these visual aesthetics similarly.