signal-to-noise-ratio
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Intimation.
aggressive mimicry, All the world’s a stage, anger, anthropomorphism, anxiety, apocrine glands, askance, autism, bluster, body image, body language, bradypnoea, calculus, Clever Hans, cosmetics, disarm, dissemble, dissimulate, distract, distraction, double take, dry mouth, eye contact, faeces, fear sweat, film stars, fingernails, flannel, folding of the arms, fragrance, gender differences, gesticulations, hum, human parasite, humming, intimation, jaw clench, mendacity, mint, mirror lenses, Mona Lisa, more to this than meets the eye, Morphological variants of silent bared-teeth displays have different social interaction outcomes in crested macaques (Macaca nigra), nervous sweating, non-verbal, nostril flares, nostril wrinkles, On The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, peppermint, perfume, personal space, Poisson distribution, pregnant pause, quiver, Revealing the structure of information flows discriminates similar animal social behaviours, rhetoric, seduction, Sharing the motivation to play: the use of signals in adult bonobos, shrug, shrug of the shoulders, shrugging, sidelong, signal-to-noise-ratio, sniffing, stress sweat, subliminal stimuli, suspension of disbelief, synapse, tachypnoea, tattoos, the Pons test, tight clothing, tremor, unconscious antithesis, urine, visual imagery, whistle, whistling, yawningIntimation qualifies verbalisation, so that a particular content may be given emphasis by widening of the eyes, narrowing of the eyes, blinking, pupillary dilatation, unfocused eyes, lachrymosity, change of eye contact, glances, staring, wrinkling of the skin between the eyes, wrinkling of the skin around the eyes, nostril flares, nostril wrinkles, blowing out of the…
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Figures of speech, periphrases, parapraxes, and solecisms.
adaptation, adaptive simulation, altruism, Batesian mimicry, bona fide, borrow (linguistics), Cellular networks underlying human spatial navigation, chlorobutanol, Choosing Where to Attend and the Medial Frontal Cortex: An fMRI Study Journal of Neurophysiology, circumlocution, Comparison of the Distributions of Urocortin Containing and Cholinergic Neurons in the Perioculomotor Midbrain of the Cat and Macaque, cooperation, Diagnostic Yield of Chromosomal Microarray Analysis in a Cohort of Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorders from a Highly Consanguineous Population, disambiguation of kindling, euphemism, excitement, Experimental peripheral administration of oxytocin elevates a suite of cooperative behaviours in a wild social mammal, figures of speech, fluctuating asymmetry, Freudian slip, frontal, genetics, group selection, Hamilton’s rule, head direction cells, How many for dinner? Recruitment and monitoring by glances in capuchins, human oestrus, hyperbole, hypomania, inclusive fitness, Intrasexual competition and sexual selection in cooperative mammals, litotes, loanword, malapropism, mania, mathematics, Müllerian mimicry, metaphor, metonymy, misnomer, oxymoron, oxytocin, parapraxis, Perioculomotor cell groups in monkey and man defined by their histochemical and functional properties: Reappraisal of the Edinger-Westphal nucleus, periphrasis, place cells, prefrontal, psychoanalysis, refractory period, Secondary sex ratios and male lifespan: Damaged or culled cohorts, Selfishness as second-order altruism, signal-to-noise-ratio, solecism, Spatial remapping of touch: Confusion of perceived stimulus order across hand and foot, tautology, taxi, The evolutionary diagnosis of mental disorder, The future of theoretical evolutionary game theory, The Royal Society, Tracking the Fear Engram: The Lateral Amygdala Is an Essential Locus of Fear Memory Storage, underdiagnosis, understatementFigures of speech are inadvertent social information about the user until proven otherwise: they are particularly misplaced at work, where they reduce signal relative to noise, usually because the operative wishes to bring something of himself or herself to the format. The use of metaphor indicates lack of substance until proven otherwise, such as advising…
To be or not to be. 