Self-Quiz: Test Your Nonverbal Dominance Knowledge

Knowing which behaviors people perceive as dominant is an important part of being a competent nonverbal communicator (Carney et al., 2005). Review the following list of behaviors and rank the behaviors in order from 1 to 10, where 1 is the least dominant behavior and 10 is the most dominant.

Please note that your score for this activity will not be recorded unless your instructor has assigned the activity.

This Self-Quiz is adapted from Table 1 of Sillars et al. (2000, p. 488).

The five most dominant behaviors (in order from most dominant to least dominant) are b, c, f, j, and g. If you ranked those five items in the 6–10 range, you have ranked them correctly.