Question 1 When we interact with others, we continuously give and receive wordless signals. All of our nonverbal behaviors the gestures we make, the way we sit, how fast or how loud we talk, how close we stand, how much eye contact we make send strong messages. These messages don't stop when you stop speaking either. Even when you're silent, you're still communicating nonverbally.
Oftentimes, what comes out of our mouths and what we communicate through our body language are two totally different things. When faced with these mixed signals, the listener has to choose whether to believe your verbal or nonverbal message, and, in most cases, they're going to choose the nonverbal because it's a natural, unconscious language that broadcasts our true feelings and intentions in any given moment. In today’s culture people in my age group are glued to their electronic devices. Mobile phones are ideally suited to provide insight into social behaviors. They are inconspicuous, typically carried by the majority of individuals within a population, and today have the computational horsepower of the personal computers of only a decade ago. In particular, it is the passive sensing capabilities of current phones that make them such an important tool to study human populations.
Question 4 Anthropologists often define marriage as a social, political, or economic contract between two individuals and their families – this does not imply monogamy, as a man with five wives has five separate