Couples (N=21) rated their marital satisfaction and then participated in a task designed to measure nonverbal communicative competence independent of verbal competence. Results indicated a positive relationship between marital satisfaction and nonverbal competence but only for husbands reading their wives' nonverbal cues. (Author/RC)

The authors argue that the expression theory of dance is subjectivistic and false, thus failing to provide an adequate rationale for criticism and dance education. They sketch out a theory of dance which focuses squarely on movement itself, and claim this provides a coherent, objective basis for dance education. (KC)

Results of this study indicate that naive female observers can detect nonverbally communicated differences in anxiety levels of male subjects. Subjects who believed thay received alcohol were perceived as more relaxed and less anxious in their nonverbal behavior. The actual drink consumed had no impact upon the raters' perception. (Author)

Conclusions from a national survey of communication methods used by 195 deaf-blind students included that children with moderate and moderate-severe vision losses prefer visually presented gestures and IQ had little effect on choice of methods. (Author)

Twelve nonverbal, hearing, retarded children (4 to 8 years old) were matched and then randomly assigned to sign language training, speech training, and placebo groups. The findings were interpreted as indicating that some nonverbal retarded children will benefit more from sign language than speech training. (Author)

Nonverbal cues of immediacy significantly improved ratings of the therapist's interpersonal skills and effectiveness. A therapist's nonverbal behavior is a basis for interpretations of empathy, warmth, genuineness, and effectiveness. (Author)

Results did not confirm the overall functional superordinancy of the nonverbal channel across all levels of response orientation. An interactive relationship was found, with the nonverbal channel functioning with relatively more impact on the confrontive level of orientation. (Author)

Develops a theory of strategic, political silence which directs public attribution of predictable meanings towards political leaders who unexpectedly refuse to speak in public. The meanings are mystery, uncertainty, passivity, and relinquishment. Illustrates the theory with a criticism of President Carter's silence in July 1979. (JMF)

Investigates the communication skills of children in grades kindergarten, two, and four (eight from each grade). Also looks at age differences in reliance on gestural v verbal forms of communication. (Author/SS)

This study was conducted to determine how individual differences in sex role orientation, as assessed by the Bem Sex Role Inventory, were related to subjects' display of a number of nonverbal behaviors indicative of "masculinity" and "femininity," respectively. Subjects were 72 college students. (Author/MP)

Advocates the more extended treatment of content analysis in political communication research. Develops a fourfold scheme for classifying verbal and nonverbal communication content and illustrates the use of the scheme in political communication research by analysis of the 1960 and 1976 presidential debates. (JMF)

Some young children presented with unidimensional and nonverbal conservation tasks were able to give a conservation response if they could answer with a picture instead of orally. (Editor)

Demonstrates that eye contact per se, and not solely the inherent attractiveness of the eyes and face, is salient to five-month-old infants. Five-month-old infants can distinguish when another person is looking at them, rather than at a nearby location. (Author/MP)

In a study of the effects of children upon adults, 64 college student subjects served as teachers in 1-to-1 interactions with four 11-year-old child confederates who displayed either high or low amounts of nonverbal cues of positivity. (SB)