... of voice quality and tone. Non-verbal communication can add attitudinal implications superior to verbal communication. Some of the most common channels of non-verbal communication are through are facial expressions. Marcus Cicero believed that the 'Face is the image of the soul' and although one may argue that humans have the ability to be able to mask their true feelings with expressions of the opposite emotions, as studies and research have shown facial expression do play an important role in communication. We communicate through our amount of bodily contact, are type of eye contact if any, and our special relationships when we communicate. Although this is a common characteristic across all humans in cultures do people in different cultures vary in their use of non-verbal communication? Charles Darwin hypothesised that facial expressions play a salient role in communicating but also emotional expressions perform an instinctive function in non-verbal communication. Darwin argued that because these ...

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