Just as my peers reciprocated my nonverbal behaviors that I perceived as negative, they also reciprocated nonverbal behaviors that I viewed as positive. Instead of being intimidated as usual, I made sure to look almost everyone I was talking to in the eye. Not only did I make more eye contact, but I added a smile to make it less awkward and to not come across as too strong. My point of smiling as well as making eye contact has led to people smiling at me and some even saying "HELLO!". This also led me to have more conversations than I would normally have in my everyday life. I think this change was mainly due to my ability to see people's emotions in their eyes, which helped me have more empathy with what they said. Having empathy for what someone was saying made me more interested in the conversation. Eye contact and good nonverbal behaviors make the people you talk to like and care about you more. This is true because the people I spoke to must have felt that I was more interested because they were more open about their opinions and this made me feel more comfortable doing the same thing. Even if what we were talking about wasn't that important it had more meaning than a conversation where these behaviors weren't practiced. Not every time my eye contact and smile got the response I was hoping for, like in those cases, but there were times when I ended up having to compensate