True/False

1.   Meshing impacts how satisfying the conversation exchange is viewed by the speakers.

2.   The speaker’s gestures tend to be smaller and less precise when relaying information that the receiver is unfamiliar with.

3.   A system for identifying speech-independent gestures, developed by Johnson, Ekman, and Friesen, considers that an emblem is “verified” when 70 percent of the people asked to perform a gesture do so in a similar way.

4.   Gestures are used because they primarily benefit the communicator doing the gesturing.

5.   The findings of Pine and his colleagues (2010) would lead you to believe that you would gesture more when describing scissors than a rug to a person who you could not see.

6.   Some studies have observed extended embraces and greater intimacy of touch more during departures than during greetings.

7.   It is easy to study touching because it happens frequently in public.

8.   Nonromantic same-sex touching is most likely to occur between the very young and the very old.

9.   Across the world, norms for the amount and kinds of touching behavior are surprisingly consistent.

10. Facial expressions consistently reveal internal emotions.

11. Background context is not helpful in identifying facial expressions.

12. An in-group advantage has been documented showing that people have an advantage when judging cues expressed by members of their own cultural, national, or ethnic group.

13. “Externalizers” are people who have lots of overt facial expressions and little physiological reactivity to stimuli.

14. The research of Chapman and colleagues (2009) shows that different facial muscles are associated with gustatory disgust (e.g., something tastes bad to you) compared to moral disgust (e.g., you see someone being treated unfairly).

15. The speaker in a conversation usually looks more at the listener than the listener does the speaker.

16. Engaging in effective eye contact is difficult for an individual with Asperger’s syndrome.

17. Gaze-cuing occurs only in humans.

18. Listeners are unable to perceive a smile in the voice by listening alone.

19. The physical mechanism for producing sounds is called paralanguage.

20. A spectrogram is a visual picture of a person’s speech.

21. Silence can be used to draw attention to words and ideas.

22. Arrangement of arms, legs, and torsos which prevent others from entering a conversation are known as positional cues.

23. The greater the consequences perceived by the liar, the lesser the possibility that others will be able to detect the lie using nonverbal signals.

24. Place and colleagues (2009) found that viewers of speed dating videos were better able to detect men’s romantic interest in women than women’s romantic interest in men.

25. Nonverbal behaviors have no meaning outside of a given context.

26. Advertising messages rely more upon verbal cues than on nonverbal cues to promote products.

27. Political candidates are usually better at preparing and controlling their nonverbal behaviors in structured situations than in spontaneous ones.

28. People routinely deny being influenced by the very same advertising strategies they readily see influencing others.

29. In successful videoconferencing, focusing on the communicators faces is equally important, whether the goal is personal interaction or selling a product.

30. Self-objectification may lead to a number of detrimental psychological and behavioral conditions in women, including excessive appearance monitoring, feelings of shame, and eating disorders.