Nonverbal Communication

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A Semantic Space for Nonverbal Behavior
1
The Language of Posture and Position
16
Language within Language
31
Implicit Rhetoric
54
Nonverbal Betrayal of Feeling
84
Inconsistent Messages and Sarcasm
104
Styles and Abilities in Implicit Communication
133
Categories of Social Behavior
147
Child Communication
159
Overview
178
Scoring Criteria for Some Categories of Nonverbal
191
Personality Measures Relating to Affective
199
Bibliography
206
Index
218
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Page 84 - He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his finger-tips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Page 84 - ... of the least use. Some actions ordinarily associated through habit with certain states of the mind may be partially repressed through the will, and in such cases the muscles which are least under the separate control of the will are the most liable still to act, causing movements which we recognize as expressive.
Page 202 - It makes me sad to see a lonely stranger in a group"; "I like to watch people open presents").
Page 204 - ... success? Not necessarily, according to the findings of Janet Spence and Robert Helmreich (1983). These researchers studied the relationship between the successes of adults in several career fields and personal dispositions such as competitiveness, a willingness to work hard, and a mastery orientation (eg, "If I am not good at something I would rather keep struggling to master it than move on to something I may already be good at."). In one sample involving scientists, success was defined as the...
Page 19 - ... contraction, a depressed, downcast, or dejected posture communicated by a forward-leaning trunk, a bowed head, drooping shoulders, and a sunken chest. For each of these four generic categories, the head and trunk position(s) were found to be the most important indicators. However, specific discriminations...
Page 103 - Specifically, when being deceitful communicators nodded and gestured less, exhibited less frequent leg and foot movements, assumed less immediate positions relative to their addressees, talked less, talked slower, had more speech errors, and smiled more. In addition to their relevance for deceit, the findings also provided detailed information about the significance of the various implicit cues employed in the study.
Page 216 - Weiner, B., P. Johnson, and A. Mehrabian. 1968. Achievement motivation and the recall of incompleted and completed examination questions.
Page 1 - facial expressions, hand and arm gestures, postures and positions, and various movements of the body or the legs and feet.
Page 202 - Seeing people cry upsets me"), others do not (eg, "Sometimes the words of a song can move me deeply"; "I would rather be a social worker than work in a job training center"). If one wanted a simple paper-and-pencil index of empathy, one might consider Stotland's three-item fantasy-empathy scale, which has been found to predict helping behavior at about the same level of confidence as the Mehrabian-Epstein inventory (Hammersla, 1973).
Page 204 - It is important for me to do my work as well as I can even if it isn't popular with my coworkers.

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