Discusses a study dealing with English, Northern Italian and Southern Italian encoders role-playing specific emotions and degrees of two dimensions of emotion, and presents evidence suggesting that for neither the English nor the Italians, do hand gestures and other bodily cues function as a major communication channel for emotion. Available from:…

Female subjects acted out neutral messages to obtain gaze baseline, then positive or negative message to camera. Half used strong emotion; other half used weak emotion. Found more direct gaze was maintained when expressing strong emotion. Positivity-negativity of message did not affect gaze direction. (Author)

Gordon Allport believed that one could learn about the content and structure of people's personalities by looking at their expressive movements. While his expectations were not absolute, he did believe that different expressive behaviors were consistent with each other, and that any given expressive behavior, for a particular individual, would be…

Proposes that body-focused movement reflects a degree of uncertainty involved in generating information as a function of type of information, psychological differentiation of encoder, and psychological uncertainty of communicative setting. Object-focused movements appear to occur in relation to the type of information and listener availability.…

The study reported in this paper developed a categorization of teacher physical motion in relation to verbal actions and analyzed two random samples of such motion as a basis for posing ten hypotheses concerning teacher nonverbal behavior. (MJB)

Reported is a significant correlation between book carrying behavior and sex stereotype which appear to be a consequence of social modeling. Second grade and older males typically carry books at their sides while females carry books against their chests. Kindergarten and first grade students typically carry books by their sides. (SL)

Concludes that in the laboratory, participants' conversation behavior is not discernably affected by videotaping, no matter how overt or obvious the taping procedure is. Study focuses on behaviors out of conscious awareness: gestures, head nods, speaking turns, self or object manipulations, and shifts to reclining posture or to forward lean. (PD)

Sixteen junior high students, half with high and half with low scores on peer-relations self-concept and self-esteem scales were videotaped during music class. During noninstructional free time, the low scorers touched themselves more frequently than did the high scorers. No other significant behavioral differences were found. (Author/SJL)

This study was designed to evaluate the effects of both sex of subject and sex of partner with respect to a wide variety of nonverbal behaviors. The subjects were 44 men and 44 women graduate professional students at the University of Chicago. The behaviors were coded from videotapes of 88 dyadic conversations where each subject participated in…

Institutionalized male adolescents, rated on a psychopathic behavior scale, were videotaped in an interview situation. Nonverbal and paralinguistic behaviors were analyzed. Psychopathic subjects were more intrusive toward their interviewers than nonpsychopaths. A number of other observed differences in emotional expression between the two groups…

Defines emblems or symbolic gestures, distinguishes them from illustrators and discusses a recently developed procedure for surveying the emblem repertoire in various cultures. (MH)

Studies patterns of dress, play, behavior and gestures of male prisoners and contends that these nonverbal cues constitute a vital prison communication channel. (MH)

This essay reviews empirical evidence that suggests that emotion type and emotion intensity are associated with distinct and independent patterns of frontal electroencephalographic (EEG) activity in infants. The role of the frontal lobe and related brain systems in emotion expression and regulation is also discussed from a developmental…

Outlines a two-year study of the kinesic behavior of four and five-year-olds and concludes that turn-taking in preschoolers' conversations is systematically signalled. (MH)