Female undergraduates listened to audiotaped recordings of a counseling interview between an experienced male counselor and a female client. Subjects rated counselor's expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness, and generated written responses to self-disclosing or self-involving counselor statements. The self-involving counselor was rated as…

Studied nonverbal abilities, nonverbal behaviors, and verbal-nonverbal congruence of both counselor and client in relation to judgments by counselors and clients of counseling outcome. Results indicated that only verbal-nonverbal congruence was significantly related to outcome. (Author)

Discusses several aspects of nonverbal communication whereby teachers convey messages about their feelings, needs, and preferences. Types of nonverbal communication include vocal intonation, facial expressions, eye contact, touch, spatial distance, and dress. Implications for classroom outcomes of a teacher's nonverbal communication are presented.…

Proposes that communication strategies describe the learners' pattern of using what they know as they try to communicate with speakers of the largest language, and that communication strategies have an interactional function. Specific criteria are suggested for defining the notion of communication strategy as distinguished from learning and…

In an attempt to improve the communication process and draw attention to some ideas that need further study, a communication model that deals specifically with the supervisor-teacher interaction process is presented. (Author)

Review of research of counselors' influence on clients indicates clients respond more to the counselor role rather than to the individual. Nonverbal communication is often more effective than verbal statements in affecting clients' perceptions. Counseling may be considered an instance of social influence. Further research is recommended. (JAC)

Negative affect and negative affect reciprocity appear to be robust properties of marital interaction, and they also have been found to discriminate satisfied from dissatisfied marriages. There is more evidence of consistency across tasks using sequential rather than nonsequential variables. (Author)

Identifies factors involved in nonverbal and verbal communicative behaviors which constitute feedback responses. Examines the informational potential of these behaviors in terms of the receivers' perceptions of themselves and the message sender and the effectiveness and efficiency with which receivers respond to a given message. (JMF)

The article examines normal language and communication development to provide insights into what parents of hearing impaired children can expect from and do for their children. Findings of particular importance for facilitating linguistic growth in hearing impaired children are discussed. (DLS)

Studies viewers' impressions of husbands and wives in four Ingmar Bergman films in terms of socio-intellectual status, dynamism, and aesthetic quality. The agreement of viewer ratings indicates that viewers reacted more in tune with the underlying symbolic significance of characters than did most critics. (JMF)

Describes the development and testing of a new facial meaning sensitivity test designed to determine how specialized are the meanings that can be decoded from facial expressions. Demonstrates the use of the test to measure a receiver's current level of skill in decoding facial expressions. (JMF)

Investigated the teachability of 11 consultation-related skills. Concluded that experimental group subjects significantly outperformed the control group subjects in Verbal Consultation on the posttest but experimental and control groups did not differ significantly in Nonverbal Consultation. (Author)

Presents an experiential-educational approach to families with infants integrating dance and movement therapy with family therapy theories and techniques. Nonverbal techniques are the only possible methods of working directly with infants present with their parents in these workshops. The focus is on negotiations and exchanges of feelings in…

Studied effects of specialized training and expert nonverbal behaviors. Female undergraduates viewed videotapes of a counseling interaction between a professional counselor and confederate client, and rated the counselor on credibility. Results indicated that each manipulation significantly affected perceived expertness. Expert nonverbal beahvior…

Studied effects of durations of eye contact over two counseling conditions. Females observed counseling interviews and rated counselors on effectiveness. Counselors using both styles were rated higher on all dimensions. In problem-focused conditions, the counselor was rated lower in genuineness. Differences did not hold for high level of eye…