When you listen, your attention is focused on the speaker and his topic. When you listen, you are attentive, have an open posture, have a clear facial expression, and your body language is open and leaning towards the speaker. (Wankat, Oreovicz) And when we listen effectively, we understand the nonverbal message better. Why would we want to better understand a message? When we understand a message better, it creates less opportunity for conflict, builds respect, and speeds up the process of understanding and interpreting the message and the goals associated with it. The last nonverbal message I will talk about involves facial expressions. Again, this type of nonverbal is universal. It can be argued that it is the most universal way of communicating. But it's more than that. It exhibits emotion better than any other nonverbal language, yet it is very simple. James A. Russell specifies in his scholarly journal, "that some facial movements have some kind of emotional meaning, which is understood at levels above chance by some human beings in most cases." cultures. At the other end of the continuum would fall the claim that, for example, exactly seven separate specific facial configurations signal the corresponding number of separate facial configurations.