Pop Culture Blueprints

Marcia Berry, Ph.D., Communication Studies and Honors College

Popular culture articles often suggest a blueprint for your life, telling you whether someone is interested in you, how you should interview for that next position, and so on. You should, however, ask if the advice is good advice. Come and learn whether many of these pop culture blueprints are correct, as the Nonverbal Communication students whose presentations were voted the best by their classmates document their researched analysis of many pop culture blueprints. Their analyses may save you some costly mistakes! The following students analyze the veracity of the nonverbal concepts in the following popular culture articles:

“Five Ways to Tell that Someone Likes You” by Jack Schafer; Michael Cerfogli, Undergraduate Student, Communication Studies and Honors College

“The Body Language Mistakes You Don’t Realize You’re Making at Work, According to Experts” by Sophia Gottfried; April Rivera Marmol, Undergraduate Student, Communication Studies and Honors College

“11 Ways to Use Body Language to Get What You Want” by Jayson DeMers; Kimberly Sermeno, Undergraduate Student, Communication Studies and Honors College

When You Know It, You Show It: An Analysis of “A Body-Language Expert Explains Why Jenna and Channing Were Always Touching” by Elizabeth Narins; Anne Shiraishi, Undergraduate Student, Communication Studies and Honors College