Social cues and their impact vary all over the world. They help us understand other people better, and facilitate non verbal communication. A world wide social cue, for example, is to introduce new members to existing group members. Examples of an event with many social cues is at a dinner party – where the host makes a toast, guests sit down and wait to start eating when the host does, etc. These are all part of the commonly known and accepted social cues that govern how an event or group of people should behave in certain situations.

Hi! Cue is sometimes used as a signal - a social cue would be a facial expression, a hand gesture or body posture at a social event. For example - the host of a party sits down, this would signal that the other guest join him. Or if a crowd of people are talking together at a bar and there is a person on their own - a member of the group may make a nod of their head to the single person to indicate that it is ok to join them. Hope that helps C x