People learn to use facial expressions to intensify or deintensify feelings and to neutralize or mask other emotions. We follow cultural, professional, and personal display rules as we learn to manage our faces. The eyes, long associated with mystic power, are important sources of information. Eye behavior serves to maintain social position. The eyes are good indicators of emotion.
Eye contact signals our willingness to relate to one another.
C. Paralanguage, the way we say something rather than what we say, is another nonverbal code. Paralanguage is usually divided into three parts, each of which convey meaning. Vocal qualities are characteristics of the voice like pitch. Vocal segregates are pauses, fillers, and other hesitation phenomena. Although the judgments we make on the basis of voice are not necessarily accurate, we think they are.