Gender Differences in Nonverbal Communication Patterns

Gender Differences in Nonverbal Communication Patterns

Introduction

Nonverbal cues are often used to communicate some innate feeling that the individual is maybe experiencing. Understanding nonverbal communication is necessary for ensuring sufficient and positive human interaction. However, mastering the nonverbal cues is difficult since this form of communication through direct is also ambiguous. The resulting miscommunication can often be due to differences in communication patterns, especially where the individual passing the message and the individual receiving the message are of different genders. There have been several attempts to describe and understand gender communication. According to (Manusov and Patterson 2006), most scholars defy gender communication as the expressions applied by one gender when attempting to pass on a message in their relationships. Researchers have been interested in mastering the distinguishable differences in…