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Fifty-five percent of what a listener feels about a conversation he has just completed is based on _____.

the actual conversation
what an impartial third party interpreted as important
the other person’s nonverbal communication
none of the above

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Answer:

The answer is the other person’s nonverbal communication.

Step-by-step explanation:

The concept mentioned in the question comes from Albert Mehrabian’s misquoted research results, which stated that in communication, 55% of our perception about the conversation comes from non-verbal communication, 38% from the tone of the speech, and 7% from the actual content of the conversation. However, this quote was wrongly cited, and Mehrabian himself has refuted this, since it is only selectively citing a research experiment that he conducted, which following research replicating the conditions have consistently debunked.

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