Human Attraction and Emotional Cues Can Be Determined Through Kinesics
LOVE IN MOTION
“Human attraction and emotional cues can be determined through kinesics.”
Nietzsche (1980) once said that “Every man is a creative cause of what happens; a primum (prime mover) mobile with an original movement” (p. 154). Indeed, humans are remarkably designed to interact with other humans, and together create a string of events. This interaction happens as one communicates with the other, whether through speech or ink. But over time, anyone can agree that communication is not only limited through words. Right now, even the smallest lift of a finger can send out a message. In fact, social scientist and author Davis (1971) said that nonverbal communication is a shortcut to the exhaustive process of conversing through language. She claimed that gestures are more powerful than boldfaced texts or punctuation marks. Due to the mystery of the communicative role of nonverbal behaviors, numerous researches have now been made to focus on this enigma. This enigma is now formally labeled as “kinesics.” “Kinesics analyzes body movements in slow motion and correspondingly assigns meanings to them” (Axtell, 1991, p. 7). Almost all early attempts in the study of kinesics resulted in failures, because there were no video cameras to capture “live motions.” After the birth of such cameras, kinesics had covered a wide collection of literature and research under its field. A known successful kinesics study, titled Communications of Affect through Facial Expressions of Humans, done by Buck, Savin, Miller, and Caul (1972) used monkeys as its variables to characterize as “humans.” It had the following as one of its significant results:
Sex is important in terms of their relationship between physiological responding and communication accuracy. Females were “externalizers” (shows emotions overtly), while males are “internalizers” (shows little emotion). This could also be true in their culture today, since young boys are systematically taught to
“Human attraction and emotional cues can be determined through kinesics.”
Nietzsche (1980) once said that “Every man is a creative cause of what happens; a primum (prime mover) mobile with an original movement” (p. 154). Indeed, humans are remarkably designed to interact with other humans, and together create a string of events. This interaction happens as one communicates with the other, whether through speech or ink. But over time, anyone can agree that communication is not only limited through words. Right now, even the smallest lift of a finger can send out a message. In fact, social scientist and author Davis (1971) said that nonverbal communication is a shortcut to the exhaustive process of conversing through language. She claimed that gestures are more powerful than boldfaced texts or punctuation marks. Due to the mystery of the communicative role of nonverbal behaviors, numerous researches have now been made to focus on this enigma. This enigma is now formally labeled as “kinesics.” “Kinesics analyzes body movements in slow motion and correspondingly assigns meanings to them” (Axtell, 1991, p. 7). Almost all early attempts in the study of kinesics resulted in failures, because there were no video cameras to capture “live motions.” After the birth of such cameras, kinesics had covered a wide collection of literature and research under its field. A known successful kinesics study, titled Communications of Affect through Facial Expressions of Humans, done by Buck, Savin, Miller, and Caul (1972) used monkeys as its variables to characterize as “humans.” It had the following as one of its significant results:
Sex is important in terms of their relationship between physiological responding and communication accuracy. Females were “externalizers” (shows emotions overtly), while males are “internalizers” (shows little emotion). This could also be true in their culture today, since young boys are systematically taught to