Nonverbal cues convey another’s consciousness beyond deliberate communication.

Evidence

In the face-to-face situation, the conscious life of my fellow man becomes accessible to me by a maximum of vivid indications. Since he is confronting me in person, the range of symptoms by which I apprehend his consciousness includes much more than what he is communicating to me purposefully. I observe his movements, gestures, and facial expressions, I hear the intonation and the rhythm of his utterances. Each phase of my consciousness is coordinated with a phase of my partner’s. — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 63

Categorization

• DEFINE: Schutz’s core account of how intersubjectivity arises in face-to-face encounter through reciprocal nonverbal indication.
• XREF: connects to: Nonverbal communication can convey a message more clearly than speech — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 95; Perception grasps the Other’s gesture as a whole-body structure, not as parts plus judgment — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 903; Empathic people are more susceptible to subliminal cues and influence — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 945 (+3 more)

Related

• Nonverbal relation can be established through a sign of shared inquiry (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Nonverbal communication can convey a message more clearly than speech #corroborates (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 95
• Perception grasps the Other’s gesture as a whole-body structure, not as parts plus judgment #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 903
• Body language overrides even legitimized interaction openings #exemplifies (0.80)
• Empathic people are more susceptible to subliminal cues and influence #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 945
• Power operates partly through perception rather than explicit verbal communication #exemplifies (0.75)
• Our own bodily states bias how we read other people’s minds #corroborates (0.70) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 378