January 14, 2015

January 14, 2015

Written by Maximus Peperkamp, M.S. Verbal Engineer

Dear Reader, 

This writer believes it is possible to improve human relationship and the natural science of human behavior, called behaviorology, is needed to make that happen. One application of this science is what he calls Sound Verbal Behavior (SVB). He is the originator of this concept. It came about because he noticed how one verbal behavioral response affected another and how an orderly pattern of responses began to emerge. SVB is about verbal behavior as well as nonverbal behavior. Stated differently, SVB is about speaking as well as listening. Moreover, what we say, our verbal behavior, affects how we say it, our nonverbal behavior. Likewise, our nonverbal behavior or how we say it also affects what we say, our verbal behavior. In SVB, our verbal and our nonverbal expressions can bi-directionally affect each other. 

Things are very different in Noxious Verbal Behavior (NVB), in which also the bi-directional interaction between our verbal and our nonverbal behavior occurs, but is not properly expressed. During NVB people falsely assume that there can be no effect from their verbal behavior on their nonverbal behavior or from their nonverbal behavior on their verbal behavior. Yet, this effect is there, and what’s more, it happens to both the speaker and the listener.