Synopses & Reviews
This volume provides a broad and comprehensive overview of current theory and research in the field of nonverbal behavior and details the major contemporary research areas within it. The contributions, written by prominent researchers in this area of study, consider nonverbal behavior from a broad perspective, focusing on the fundamental psychological processes that underlie the phenomenon. Several meanings of nonverbal behavior are employed throughout the volume and the contributors, whose work represents disparate research traditions and methodologies, consider biological and neuropsychological approaches, cognitive processes, gestures, facial expressions, and other symbolic behavior. The papers are united by a shared conviction that nonverbal behavior represents an important phenomenon with implications both for people's understanding of their own phenomenological and emotional worlds and for the nature of their social interactions with others.
Review
"...a set of state-of-the-art summaries, all of them informative and some truly excellent..." Robert M. Krauss, Contemporary Psychology"...will serve well as a useful reference for those wishing to learn of recent developments in the study of facial expressions, expressiveness, interpersonal coordination, neuropsychology of expression, voice and emotion, and gesture in relation to speech." Adam Kendon, Semiotica
Synopsis
Representing disparate research traditions, contributors to this overview of non verbal behavior theory and research consider biological and neuropsychological approaches as well as gestures, facial expressions, and other symbolic behavior.
Table of Contents
Preface; Part I. Biological Approaches to Nonverbal Behaviour: 1. Neuropsychology of facial expression William E. Rinn; 2. Brain pathology, lateralization, and nonverbal behaviour Pierre Feyereisen; Part II. Sociodevelopmental Approaches to Nonverbal Behaviour: 3. The development of facial expresssions in infancy Linda A. Camras, Carol Malatesta and Carroll E. Izard; 4. Toward an ecology of expressiveness: family socialization in particular and a model in general Amy G. Halberstadt; Part III. Affective and Cognitive Processes: 5. Facial expression: methods, means, and moues Paul Ekman and Maureen O'Sullivan; 6. Voice and emotion Arvid Kappas, Ursula Hess and Klaus R. Scherer; 7. Gesture and speech Bernard Rimé and Loris Schiaratura; Part IV. Individual Differences and Social Adaptation: 8. Expressiveness as an individual difference Antony S. R. Manstead; 9. Social competence and nonverbal behaviour Robert S. Feldman, Pierre Philippot and Robert J. Custrini; 10. Nonverbal and self-presentation: a developmental perspective Bella M. Depaulo; Part V. Interpersonal Processes: 11. Interpersonal coordination: behaviour matching and interactional synchrony Frank J. Bernieri and Robert Rosenthal; 12. Symbolic nonverbal behaviour: talking through gestures Pio Enrico Ricci Bitti and Isabella Poggi; 13. A fundamental approach to nonverbal exchange Miles L. Patterson; Author index; Subject index.