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Research Paper | Communication Science | India | Volume 12 Issue 9, September 2023

Exploring the Impact of Gender Differences on Nonverbal Communication: An In-Depth Analysis with Impression Management Theory

Eva Maria Johnson

Abstract: Various researches have detected small but significant gender differences in non - verbal communication among adults and children. But do these differences play an important role in acting as an obstacle to effective communication? This paper attempts to find how gender differences affect nonverbal communication with the impression management of Erving Goffman as the theoretical framework. The study was conducted with primary data collected on nonverbal communication differences among genders, supported by secondary data findings. For an extensive analysis, besides communicational, feminist, biological, psychoanalytic and socio - cultural theories were taken into account. There are various established nonverbal gender differences for behaviour and skill showing like smiling, facial and gesture expression. However, primary research findings point out that (among the educated youth) in most cases, there seems to be little to no gender difference. However, there are contradictions in the encoding and decoding of nonverbal communication between sender and receiver of different genders.

Keywords: nonverbal communication, gender, impression management, effective communication

Edition: Volume 12 Issue 9, September 2023,

Pages: 767 - 769