Cross cultural understanding: a handbook to understand others’ cultures

 
 
oculesics - 
The study of eye contact as a form of body language. 
 
outgroup - 
social group to which an individual does not identify
 
 
palm
- inside surface of the hand - significant in body language 
because an open palm has for thousands of years indicated that 
no weapon is concealed, which survives as perhaps a genetically 
inherited signal of peace, cooperation, submissiveness, etc.
 
Personal space - 
The physical space closely surrounding a 
person, which, if encroached upon, can lead to discomfort, anger 
or anxiety. 
 
pseudo-infantile gestures
- gestures of childlike vulnerability, 
often made to avert attack, attract sympathy, or to induce feelings 
of compassion, attention, etc. 

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Perception - 
Conscious understanding of something; acuity. the 
organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory 
information in order to construct a mental representation through 
the process of transduction, during which sensors in the body 
transform signals from the environment into encoded neural 
signals.