Review of Psychology

Annual Review of Psychology

Nonverbal Communication

Judith A. Hall,¹ Terrence G. Horgan,² and Nora A. Murphy<sup>3

1</sup>Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA;
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Nonverbal communication (NVC): nonlinguistic, informative aspects of behavior and appearance, including head and body features or movements, touch, interpersonal distance, and paralanguage
Nonverbal cues: aspects of appearance or nonverbal behavior to which a perceiver may respond or from which they may draw an inference
Encoding: the enactment, expression, or sending of nonverbal cues