This booklet discusses four aspects of nonverbal communication: understanding silent language; nonverbal communication in the classroom; how the unspoken, unwritten curriculum operates; and measuring nonverbal behavior. The discussion focuses on the nature of nonverbal communication, nonverbal communication and involvement, humaneness and the…

This article stresses the need for examining the total context of language, including the biological characteristics of the speaker, and anthropological, psychological, geographic, and socioeconomic factors. (CLK)

Concludes that eye-contact behavior is a key ingredient to an evaluation of the televised 1976 Presidential Debates between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. (GW)

Although much has been written to help the counselor understand the silent member in group counseling, total group silence is perhaps even more difficult to comprehend. This article attempts to help the group counselor anticipate and better understand what is happening when the counseling group experiences periods of silence. (Author)

The article details the significance of nonverbal communication or body language for the counselor in interview situations. It gives background material of the research done in the area of nonverbal communication, and quotes extensively from the leaders in the field. (Author)

The article describes the use of an electrical communication system (the Cocom Center Model 25) to establish communication with and more accurately assess an apparently profoundly retarded, nonverbal, 28-year-old spastic quadriplegic female. (Author/PHR)

This study found that the level of nonverbal behavior had a significant effect on 39 out of 40 ratings made by professional interviewers. Dimensions most influenced by nonverbal behavior were enthusiasm/motivation, confidence in self, and persuasiveness. (Author)

Singing apprehension is examined as a nonverbal counterpart of talking apprehension and three research questions and hypotheses were tested on the topic. (Author/NCR)

Focuses on three issues which are hypothesized as affecting the negotiation of an agreement in a mixed-motive conflict: congruency of verbal and nonverbal messages, relative impact of verbal and nonverbal messages, and expression of cooperative or competitive intentions. (MH)

Educators must expand their conception of listening and speaking to include nonverbal components of oral communication and develop strategies to use this expanded concept in developing the listening and speaking skills of their pupils. (MJB)

Dance is both a means of recapturing the half-forgotten freedom of movement we experience as children and a means for further developing that freedom in children and adults alike. (MJB)

This study investigated the hypothesis that information spoken by the teacher immediately following a prolonged silence is learned more effectively than the same information spoken in the normal speech patterns. Results show that prolonged periods of teacher silence can be a means to implement learning. (Author/RM)

Reports two experiments designed to determine if (1) low-performing blacks would be evaluated lower than comparable whites while high-performing blacks would be rated higher than white counterparts, and (2) perceived social class, not race, would be the relevant variable in the operation of the stereotype confirmation - contrast process. Available…

The extent to which two trained observers agreed in coding infant communicative cues was examined in a study of 15 mothers and their 11-month-old infants whose handicaps ranged from mild to severe. Observers agreed on the occurrence of an infant cue less often when coding their more severely handicapped infants. (Author/JW)