You come downstairs and see your significant other texting. When you ask who the

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You come downstairs and see your significant other texting. When you ask who they are texting they look away and say "It was Aunt Carol." You notice them clutching their phone and you see little beads of sweat forming on their forehead. You choose not to believe their words and instead believe the nonverbal cues that are telling you they are hiding something. What is this an example of?

Question 22 options:

1) High context communication

2) Nonverbal leakage

3) Paralanguage

4) The contradicting narrative hypothesis

Explanation / Answer

The non-verbal clues of clutching their phone and the little beads of sweat forming on their forehead contradict what they have said verbally. These clues are opposite expression of what they have conveyed, hence, is a non-verbal leakage.

Answer. Option 2) Non-verbal leakage

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