Consideration of the role of nonverbal communication equips students with the ability to maintain effective relationships in a business setting. (SK)

Examines socioculturally related interference phenomena by focusing on the English verbal behavior of the Japanese from a contrastive analysis approach. Discusses interactional patterns, speech acts, conversational strategies, and nonverbal behavior. (Author/BK)

Describes a study which investigated the abilities of four- and five- year-old children to discriminate pitch direction using one of three modes of response: verbal, gestural, or performance-based. The results showed that nonverbal, performance-based response modes are the most natural way for young children to react to pitch direction. (Author/RM)

Investigated eye contact patterns during deception in a counseling setting with 28 female college students. Half of the subjects were instructed to deceive the counselor by giving false answers to questions. These subjects looked at the counselor longer than others who had been instructed to tell the truth. (Author)

Presents a collection of 47 entries on nonverbal communication pertinent to the business field: 1) reference works comprised of primary and secondary books, periodical reviews, and software; and 2) human nonverbal communication articles with emphasis on body movement, facial expressions, eye contact, gestures, and paralinguistics. (JMF)

This study investigated the parameters of the smile as a signal. (Subjects were 733 adults of both sexes.) It was hypothesized for adults that gender influences rates of smiling, that smiles effectively elicit smile responses and that a social milieu increases smile responses. (MS)

Investigates the relationship between dress and personality for both males and females by matching four clothing variables and various categories of personality traits. (MH)

Links decoding ability to interpersonal cognitive complexity and to person-centered verbal adaptiveness. Finds females more likely than males to be higher in interpersonal cognitive complexity and person-centered verbal ability, and that the influence of sex washes out the relationship of nonverbal decoding ability and cognitive complexity with…

Four-, six, and eight-month-old infants' perception of the multimodal features of the human face was investigated. Results show that speech-related exaggerated prosody cues facilitate detection of the audible features of multimodally represented faces, but not until six months of age. (Author/DR)

Discusses the importance of understanding nonverbal communication in enhancing the personal and work relationships of interpreters and increasing their effectiveness in meeting the needs of customers. Discusses the mystique of body language, cultural variation in the use of gestures, the stages of an encounter, interpreting gesture clusters, and…

Nine one-hour counseling interviews were examined for the relationship between counselor forward lean and client-perceived rapport. Results indicated that more extreme forward lean was significantly more common during minutes rated as "very high" in rapport. By contrast, less acute forward lean was significantly less frequent during such…

Notes that the expression of liking has the potential to generate negative and positive outcomes. Outlines an experiment which extends a common principle of attribution-making, the self-serving bias, to predict and explain participants' and nonparticipants' attributions for a confederate's nonverbal expressions of liking or disliking. (PM)

Examines words per pause (W/P) as a means of identifying solidarity between speakers and listeners. Speakers use significantly more words per pause with friends than when speaking with strangers. W/P can be used to investigate speaking style in various contexts and to diagnose sympathy and estrangement between speakers. (JL)

Finds that confederates' intentions to show increased or decreased liking toward their partners positively correlated with the partners' liking for the confederate, but that less than one-quarter of the confederates could demonstrate an accurate conscious awareness of the behaviors they used and how they used them. (SR)