The experiment was designed to see whether children differ from adults in the ability to understand nonverbal responses of other children. Ten third-grade children were secretly filmed while watching a very easy and a very hard math lesson. Third graders, sixth graders, and adults (college students) were asked to judge, based on a film of each…

This issue of the Freedom of Speech Newsletter contains a list of the panels presented by the Freedom of Speech Interest Group at the Western Speech Communication Association convention in November 1975; Communication Stress and Freedom of Speech by John L. Healy, which describes an investigation into the destructive effects of stress; A Right to…

Although the bulk of recent research on nonverbal communication has involved studies of the functions of nonverbal behavior (emotion conveying, regulation, and adaption), a few studies have focused on the differences in nonverbal communication variables between men and women. These differences have been found in vocal patterns, intensities, length…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether certain interviewer variables affected the amount of trust present in an interview situation. The design of the experiment was based on five groups: four experimental cells and one control cell. Each experimental cell was composed of six male and six female subjects. The control cell contained 26…

This report outlines the activities of the chairman of the Speech Department of San Francisco State College during the 1968-69 postdoctoral fellowship year. The year's study was divided between the Studies in Nonverbal Behavior Department of Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute and the Education Policy Research Center of Stanford Research…

Nonverbal behaviors as part of the communication process in interpersonal relationships has recently become of interest to therapists. Usual investigations of nonverbal behavior have involved observations and ratings of the subjects' behaviors in interview and conventional treatment situations. The author's interest is in: (1) teaching people…

Data Collection and reduction procedures used in the system for the Analysis of Classroom Communication (SACC) are presented. The SACC is a system devised for the systematic observation of verbal and non-verbal classroom behavior. Coders employ data sheets which contain numbered cells for recording behavior at five second intervals. Each sheet…

This document describes the process by which aspects of nonverbal communication that appear to be indicators of involvement were identified, described, classified, and rated. To facilitate this process, an Action Category System was developed through observation in the natural classroom setting and subsequent analyses of the recorded behavior…

A nonverbal training module for a Teaching Laboratory was developed for and tested with secondary teacher-candidates enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin teacher education program. The unit, employing an awareness approach, was administered to 17 students in the experimental group immediately preceding the last of a series of required…

GRADES OR AGES: Junior high school. SUBJECT MATTER: Communication, a creative approach to teaching English and the arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide has 17 lesson series, each including objectives, materials, procedures, and assignments. There is no time limit on any of the lesson series or on the unit, which may be taught…

This is one of a series of proxemic studies made in laboratory, natural, or academic settings by the researcher with the Dennis Infracommunication Analysis Device to observe, classify, record, and analyze dyadic infracommunication, including verbal and nonverbal modes. The focus was on communicative behavior of teacher and pupil, student teacher…

Media education, evolved from film study, screen education, and visual literacy, is concerned with expanding learners' capability in nonprint communication, especially in the areas of film, still photography and television. Its objectives are to assist learners to interpret and utilize the mass media they encounter, and to foster individual…

Personnel representatives were shown one of four videotaped job interviews in which the verbal content of the 16-minute interview was identical, but the interviewee's nonverbal behavior was manipulated. Nonverbal behavior was found to have a significant effect on almost every rating made by subjects in this study. (Author)

This article studies the pattern of gaze direction in communication between blacks and whites and demonstrates the use of the natural history method in discerning such patterns of nonverbal communication. (Author/AM)