Appearance (Communication)

Part of Introduction to Communication class assignment.

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1. APPEARANCE
Amanda Shaliha Rizaputri
AnnishaKarismha

2. APPEARANCE
The way someone
or something looks

3. FACE HAIR PHYSIQUE
DRESS &
ADORNMENT
PUPIL
DILATION
ARTIFACTSEYE GAZE

4. FACE
Serve as message sources
The best source of information to an individual’s emotional state
Our feelings are written all over our faces

5. HAIR
Hair and beard length, color, and style are important
Contribute to overall attractiveness
To acknowledge people’s ages, personalities, beliefs,
occupations, attitudes, values, and cultural background

6. PHYSIQUE
Body type, size, and shape
People who appear to be “soft”, “round”, may be assumed to be cheerful,
kind.
People who appear to be muscular, bony, may be stereotyped as
dominant, argumentative, or reckless.
Traits people’s perceptions.

7. EYE GAZE
Face Contact: Looking at a person’s face
Eye Contact : Looking at a person’s eyes
Mutual Gaze: Mutual Gazing by 2 individuals at one another’s face
One-sided Gaze: One person looking at another’s face, but the behavior
is not reciprocated
Gaze Avoidance: One person actively avoiding another’s eye gaze
Gaze Omission: One individual failing to look at another, but without the
intention of doing so

8. DRESS & ADORNMENT
Sexual attraction, self-assertion, group identification, and display of
status or role
Basis for judgments as to gender, age, approachability, financial well-
being, social class, taste, and cultural background

9. PUPIL DILATION
Indicator of interest or attraction
When we see something interesting, our pupils tend to enlarge

10. ARTIFACTS
Objects that provide additional messages
Toys, technology, furniture, cars, homes, credit card, briefcase, etc.
May draw inferences about our financial resources, personality,
status, or occupation

11. FACE
Happy
HAIR
Brown = europeanor
american
PHYSIQUE
Fit = energetic, easy-
going, active
EYE GAZE
Adoring, liking,
happy
DRESS &
ADORNMENT
Classy, financially well,
stylish
PUPIL DILATION
Excited, happy,
loving

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