Why Does Thomas Discuss Nonverbal Behavior in His Paper

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Multiple Choice

Why does Thomas discuss nonverbal behavior in his paper?

• A) Thomas wants to highlight how trust, intellectual affirmation, and gratitude can be communicated nonverbally and how women and minorities can be more attuned to nonverbal behavior that may belie explicit verbal support of gender and racial equality.
• B) Thomas discusses nonverbal behavior to demonstrate how communication is often more effective when carried out without words, but rather through gestures, facial movements, or voice intonation.
• C) Thomas wants to demonstrate how affirmative action only will impact the explicit verbal teaching that happens in classrooms but not the nonverbal nature of everyday interactions omnipresent on a university's campus.
• D) Thomas wants to argue that social justice must be concerned primarily with nonverbal slights to gender and racial equality because these behaviors are more reflective of people's attitudes than what they choose to say.

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