GESTURE AND STATUS

Abstract

We cannot say at this time, just how much the nonverbal area influences the quality of our interpersonal relations, but that it does influence them, we must agree. The expressions, posture and movement of another individual have a communicative and emotional impact for each of us in varying degree. Were this not so, drama, dance, painting and sculpture would cease to exist for man. The enormous amount of "by-play"' we portray to others implies that each of us is an actor, and at times, a moving portrait or a piece of sculpture.