The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication

by Kostic, Aleksandra; Chadee, Derek

• ISBN13: 9781137345851
• ISBN10: 1137345853
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-11-24
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication gathers together leading scholars of nonverbal communication from around the world to offer insight into a range of issues within the discipline. The collection presents contemporary research and theorization of the nature, functions, and modalities of nonverbal behavior in an array of circumstances, with the aim of rethinking current approaches to the subject. This book will be of great interest to academics and nonverbal communication researchers, as well as to anyone who wants to interpret and better understand nonverbal behavior.

Author Biography

Aleksandra Kostic is Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University of Niš, Serbia. Her research interests include nonverbal communication, emotional experience, ethnic identity, and similarities and differences between cultures.

Derek Chadee is Professor of Social Psychology at the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Director of the ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. His current research interests include the social psychology of fear of crime and general fear, antecedents of emotions, copy-cat behaviour, media, HIV, AIDS and jury decision making. He is also a Fulbright Scholar undertaking research on fear of crime in two American universities.

Table of Contents

PART I: THEORETICAL
1. Nonverbal Neurology: How the Brain Encodes and Decodes Wordless Signs, Signals, and Cues; David B. Givens
2. Neuroscience of Nonverbal Communication; Milkica Nešic and Vladimir Nešic
3. Measuring Gestures; David B. Givens
4. Nonverbal Elements of the Voice; Mark G. Frank, Darrin J. Griffin, Elena Svetieva and Andreas Maroulis
5. The Expression and Perception of the Duchenne Smile; Sarah D. Gunnery and Judith A. Hall
6. Emotion Recognition, Fear and Nonverbal Behaviour; Aleksandra Kostic and Derek Chadee
PART II: APPLIED
7. Nonverbal Firsts: When Nonverbal Cues are the Impetus of Relational and Personal Change in Romantic Relationships; Valerie Manusov, Tony Docan-Morgan and Jessica Harvey
8. Beyond Facial Expression:Spatial Distance as a Factor in the Communication of Discrete Emotions; Ross Buck and Mike Miller
9. Theoretical Foundation for Emotion-Based Strategies in Political Campaigns; Albert Mehrabian
10. The Impact of Nonverbal Behavior in the Job Interview; Denise Frauendorfer and Marianne Schmid Mast
11. Nonverbal Communication in Interaction: Psychology and Literature' Fernando Poyatos
12. Nonverbal Behavior Online: A Focus on Interactions with and via Artificial Agents and Avatars; Dennis Küster, Eva Krumhuber and Arvid Kappas