You can show joy, gloom, disgust or guilt without saying a single word. It wouldn’t make sense if someone was talking to you about something depressed and you had a content face. In fact, you would probably lose trust from the other person drawing the relationship apart or hurting it. The human face is extremely expressive, able to express a lot emotions without saying a word. And unlike some forms of nonverbal communication, facial expressions are universal. The facial expressions for happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear, and disgust are the same across cultures (Jeanne Segal …show more content…
It’s okay to be fairly close to a friend and not feel awkward nut when it comes to a stranger being close, it gets uncomfortable and you feel far from comfortable. People from certain countries, such as parts of Latin America or the Middle East often feel comfortable standing closer to each other, while persons of Northern European descent tend to prefer a relatively greater distance. Different distances are also intuitively assigned for situations involving intimate relations, ordinary personal relationships, social relations, or in public places like in parks, restaurants, or on the street. (Keltner1970).You can use space to show if you are afraid, mad and trying to show dominance depending on the situation. Space between a lover tends to be very close, up to less than a foot and that’s all normal, space between a friend is close but not too close, with a teacher or someone professional it’s usually a few feet and a stranger would be several