The CEO at the company you work for has a spacious corner office all to herself while the rest of the employees share offices or work in cubicles. What form of nonverbal communication is indicating a power differential here?

A) kinesics

B) haptics

C) proxemics

D) territoriality

E) environmental factors

Proxemics

Explanation:

Proxemics broadly refers to the way humans communicate using space. It is a form of non verbal communication hinging on space, the study of it, how humans tend to use it and how we make ourselves comfortable using space or what we put in those spaces. It's the distance individuals put between themselves and other individuals. In this case, the CEO used space to indicate a power differential, giving herself a spacious corner and letting the rest share spaces.

C. Proxemics

Explanation:

Sub-categories in the study of nonverbal communication includes;

1. Haptics (touch)

2. Kinesics (body movement)

3. Vocalics (paralanguage)

4. Chronemics (structure of time).

5. Proxemics

Proxemics: This is the study of

how human beings use space, how it makes them feel and they arrange objects and ourselves in relation to space.

Edward T. Hall coined the term in 1963. He was a social anthropologist who was interested in understanding how humans use space in communication.

He defined proxemics as "the interrelated observations and theories of humans use of space as a specialized elaboration of culture".

Proxemics enables us to understand the reason behind organzation of space in people's houses and why cities or towns are planned the way they are.