What the Mehrabian 7-38-55 weighting did and did not show
The claim: Only 7% of communication is verbal; 93% is nonverbal.
Why care: A memorable formula escaped two narrow experiments about inconsistent feelings and attitudes, then circulated as a universal law. The missing experimental scope is the difference between history and advice.
skeptical finding
withhold universal rule and withhold recovered-origin claim for the seven-percent coefficient
If you use this claim
Do not teach that 93 percent of communication is nonverbal: no reviewed three-channel experiment established that universal rule.
The .07 origin remains unresolved, and direct all-channel evidence produced message-specific equations.
BoundaryHistorical evidence through 2026-08-27 about the narrow experiments, cross-study proposal, later qualification, direct rebuttal, and propagation of 7-38-55. This evidence file does not establish a universal law of communication.
The evidence map
How the familiar claim changes under inspection
01 · What was tested
Two separate pairings
One participant group compared words with tone; another compared face with tone.
02 · What was proposed
A cross-study formula
The three weights were assembled across studies; no original experiment tested all three channels together.
03 · What was inflated
A universal 93% slogan
Later circulation documents popularity, not scientific truth, and the exact origin of the .07 coefficient remains unresolved.
Lineage accounting
The units count different things
Shared capture: The two 1967 participant groups are distinct, but their papers share authorship, grants, materials, methods, scales, speakers, citation, and the later cross-study derivation.
Warrant boundary: The fixed three-number formula was proposed across studies; neither original experiment tested verbal, vocal, and facial channels together.
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The circulated claim that 93 percent of communication is nonverbal is not a result established by the two 1967 experiments.
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The .07/.38/.55 values were proposed in P2's discussion as a cross-study weighted-sum extrapolation; neither 1967 experiment tested all three channels together.
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Typed dependence
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Calculation · Facial-to-vocal ratio from P2's reported regression. Calculation: 1.50 / 1.03 = 1.4563106796116505.
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Calculation · Facial-to-vocal ratio implied by the printed proposal. Calculation: 0.55 / 0.38 = 1.4473684210526316.
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Calculation · The printed proposal is normalized to one. Calculation: 0.07 + 0.38 + 0.55 = 1.0.
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Calculation · The reported regression and printed proposal are close, not identical. Calculation: abs((1.50 / 1.03) - (0.55 / 0.38)) = 0.008942258559018867.
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The exact derivation of the .07 verbal coefficient is not disclosed in the two inspected 1967 papers or the inspected 1971 book pages.
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Calculation · Reverse-engineered ratio implied by the proposal; it does not recover the missing source derivation of 0.07. Calculation: 0.38 / 0.07 = 5.428571428571428.
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Calculation · Sensitivity reconstruction only. Reserving 0.07 is an assumption, not a derivation supplied by P1 or P2. Calculation: allocate 0.93 in the ratio 1.50:1.03 = {"facial":0.5513833992094861,"verbal":0.07,"vocal":0.3786166007905138}.
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The circulated claim that 93 percent of communication is nonverbal is not a result established by the two 1967 experiments.
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The broad rule propagated through public institutional material and a bounded web sample, but propagation supplies zero evidence that the scientific proposition is true.
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The bounded search found one direct all-channel rebuttal and related follow-ups, but no exact replication of the two-study derivation or validation of a universal fixed rule.
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Used by evidence statement 01, 04
Decoding of inconsistent communications
journal p.109; PDF p.1, abstract
inconsistent communication of attitude in 2 components of a message
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Used by evidence statement 01, 02, 04
Inference of attitudes from nonverbal communication in two channels
journal p.248; PDF p.1, abstract
3 degrees of attitude (i.e., positive, neutral, and negative) in facial expression ... were each combined with 3 degrees of attitude communicated vocally
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Used by evidence statement 01, 04
Silent Messages -- Description and Ordering Information
HTML body, strong element following the equation
Unless a communicator is talking about their feelings or attitudes, these equations are not applicable
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Used by evidence statement 01, 04, 06
Message impact: What percentage is nonverbal?
ERIC abstract
Regression equations for each of four messages were quite different from Mehrabian's formula and from each other
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Used by evidence statement 02
Inference of attitudes from nonverbal communication in two channels
journal p.250; PDF p.3, Materials and Design
Photographs of three female models were taken as they attempted to use facial expressions to communicate like, neutrality, and dislike towards another person ... there were 36 experimental conditions ... 3 Vocal Attitude X 3 Facial Attitude X 2 Speaker X 2 Model interactions
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Used by evidence statement 02, 03
Inference of attitudes from nonverbal communication in two channels
journal p.252; PDF p.5, final Discussion paragraph
A final comment is required to integrate the implications of the findings of the present study with the findings of the Mehrabian and Wiener study (1967) ... It is suggested that the combined effect of simultaneous verbal, vocal, and facial attitude communications is a weighted sum of their independent effects ... with the coefficients of .07, .38, and .55, respectively
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Inference of attitudes from nonverbal communication in two channels
journal p.249; PDF p.2, Introduction
Mehrabian and Wiener's (1967) study indicated that the dominant component in a two-channel communication determines the meaning of inconsistent communications
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Inference of attitudes from nonverbal communication in two channels
journal p.251; PDF p.4, Results
A_T = 1.50 A_F + 1.03 A_V
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Silent Messages
PDF p.51, Inconsistent messages chapter
Total liking = 7% verbal liking + 38% vocal liking + 55% facial liking
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Message impact: What percentage is nonverbal?
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all-channel condition as the criterion variable and the verbal, vocal, and facial channels as predictor variables
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Communication is 93% Nonverbal: An Urban Legend Proliferates
journal p.12; indexed PDF readback
63 of the 79 sites (80%) used the 7-38-55 numbers as a general statement about the overall nature of communication
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Communication is 93% Nonverbal: An Urban Legend Proliferates
journal p.13; indexed PDF readback, Limitations
sampling procedure in this study involved a type of convenience sample ... only made use of one electronic search engine, Google
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Police and Crime Plan - Developing the Implementation Plan
PDF slide titled Interesting facts
70 to 93 percent of all communication is nonverbal
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studies show 93% of communication is non-verbal
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The communication of friendly and hostile attitudes by verbal and non-verbal signals
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the ratio of non‐verbal : verbal variance was now 1.67:1
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Three cheers for language: A closer examination of a widely cited study of nonverbal communication
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limitations which do not warrant formulation of a precise numerical formula
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Five-line lexicon
The units are different on purpose
- Participant-data root
- One distinct reported participant collection after shared papers and programs are collapsed.
- Cross-study proposal
- An integration suggested across studies, not a result directly tested in one experiment.
- Propagation object
- A document showing that a claim circulated; it supplies no truth credit.
- Direct rebuttal
- A later all-channel test whose reported equations challenge a fixed universal rule.
- Unresolved derivation
- A coefficient origin the reviewed primary editions do not disclose.