Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behavior (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052136700X ISBN 13: 9780521367004

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Synopsis

This volume provides a broad and comprehensive overview of current theory and research in the field of nonverbal behavior and details the major contemporary research areas within it. The contributions, written by prominent researchers in this area of study, consider nonverbal behavior from a broad perspective, focusing on the fundamental psychological processes that underlie the phenomenon. Several meanings of nonverbal behavior are employed throughout the volume and the contributors, whose work represents disparate research traditions and methodologies, consider biological and neuropsychological approaches, cognitive processes, gestures, facial expressions, and other symbolic behavior. The papers are united by a shared conviction that nonverbal behavior represents an important phenomenon with implications both for people's understanding of their own phenomenological and emotional worlds and for the nature of their social interactions with others.

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Book Description:

Representing disparate research traditions, contributors to this overview of non verbal behavior theory and research consider biological and neuropsychological approaches as well as gestures, facial expressions, and other symbolic behavior.

Review:

"...a set of state-of-the-art summaries, all of them informative and some truly excellent..." Robert M. Krauss, Contemporary Psychology

"...will serve well as a useful reference for those wishing to learn of recent developments in the study of facial expressions, expressiveness, interpersonal coordination, neuropsychology of expression, voice and emotion, and gesture in relation to speech." Adam Kendon, Semiotica

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 052136700X
• ISBN 13: 9780521367004
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Feldman Robert Stephen, Rimé Bernard