Nonverbal Communication Research Page

Welcome! This page is meant to be a resource for those working in the field of nonverbal communication. Researchers can use this page to connect with their colleagues, search relevant journals (including the current contents of the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior), find out about the latest books published in the field, and obtain information about resources for teaching and training. Send me your link to add if you work in the field! Last updated Sept 24, 1999.

Attention: Students. If you are writing a paper on nonverbal communication, the best thing to do is to stop surfing the net and go to the section "BF636.C45" in your local university library, where you will find plenty of good books on nonverbal communication. Or you may want to use this page to locate some relevant journal articles. It is not recommended to use only web-based information at this time.

News

September/October 1999
  • Judith Hall and Ron Riggio are editing a book on interpersonal sensitivity which will be out next year.
  • The book "The social context of Nonverbal Behavior" by Cambridge University Press is now available.
  • On October 14-17, the Society for Experimental Social Psychology will be holding its annual meeting in St Louis, Missouri.

    July/August 1999
  • The annual meeting of the American Psychological Association starts this Thursday August 19th. As my classes start on this same day, I will be unable to attend. But there should be many nonverbal researchers there as Boston as a high concentration of nonverbal scholars.

    May/June 1999
  • The spring 1999 issue of the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior is out. Click here for an updated list of contents.
  • It is confirmed that the American Psychological Association will be publishing a journal called "Emotion." As soon as an editor is selected and can get his/her office running, manuscripts will be accepted
  • There will be a conference on gestures April 1-5, 2000 in Portugal. A group of scholars are forming an interdisciplinary effort to have a conference as well as possibly a journal devoted to gesture research. The conference will also include a component on human-computer interaction. Click herefor the call for papers.


    March/April 1999
  • I notice the next International Communication Conference is in San Francisco in May 1999, and then Acupulco in 2000! The American Psychological Association Convention is in August 1999 in Boston
  • In the movie "Meet Joe Black", there is a very good demonstration of postural synchrony in the coffee shop scene at the beginning. Look for it!
  • There are some new links once again (see below)
    February 1999
  • The 10th international conference on Perception and Action will be held August 8-13 in Edinburgh, Scotland and will have a number of sessions/speakers on posture. Click here
  • The February issue of Psychology Today has an article on flirting this month, citing Givens, Perper, Moore as well as Steven Gangestead.
  • I am getting a lot of positive feedback about this site, but I sometimes struggle with news items - if you have any, please send them to me.
    January 1999
  • Happy New Year! The Winter 1998 issue of the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior arrived in my mail box and I have updated the table of contents - click here. Elizabeth Cashdan has an article on smiling, posture, and status.
  • There is also an announcement about a price increase for the 1999 year for JNB, but the benefit is that the number of pages will be increased by 14% due to increased flow of excellent papers. The new personal rate is $62. However, if you are a member of the International Communication Association (see link below) you can reduce the rate slightly.
  • It looks like John Dovidio's term as editor at the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin is ending, as the new editor Jerry Suls takes over and the journal color changes from red to brownish green now in January.
  • I have updated some of the links at the very bottom of this page having to do with online essays/fun stuff.

    December 1998
  • The American Psychological Association will start a new journal called EMOTION, and the first issue will be published in 2001. They are currently looking for an editor. To nominate a candidate, send a statement of 1 page or less to Janet Shibley Hyde, c/o Karen Sellman, P&C Board Search Liason, Rm 2004, American Psychological Association, 750 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242.
  • The University of Hiafa (Israel) has established a new Center for Interdisciplinary research on emotions. Contact Prof M. Zeidner at Faculty of Education, U of Haifa, Mt Carmel 31905 Israel, or email Prof Zeidner
  • David Givens is currently opening The Center for Nonverbal Studies (CNS), described as "a private, nonprofit research center located in Spokane, Washington and La Jolla, California. Underway since October 1, 1997, the Center's mission is to advance the study of human communication in all its forms apart from language." The links for Givens, the Center, and related material are updated below.

    November 1998
  • It looks like the Western Psychological Association is going to have a meeting in April 99 in Irvine which will feature a number of researchers who have studied nonverbal behavior, including Robert Rosenthal, Marianne LaFrance, and Ronald Riggio. A web page is available here

    October 1998
  • Our college here is making some changes, so in order to access this page, you may need to type in the actual network number http://198.199.133.62.
  • I have been unable to get someone to sponsor me for SESP 98 in Kentucky.If I can be your "guest" please email me at hecht@socpsych.lacollege.edu

    July 1998
  • The Journal of Nonverbal Behavior is going to have special issue on gestures and one on aging.
  • The society for personality and social psychology has updated their web site and moved it. I have updated the link below.

    June 1998
  • Dr. David Givens is starting a newsletter called "Gestures" which will provide updates on the field-this should be up by the late fall.
  • Dr. Paul Ekman was recently given a Festshrift at the APS conference. A number of students and colleagues gave papers.

    Some Links that are relevant

    Chris Holden's pages on social psychology, emotion, and nonverbal (NEW)
    Motivation and Emotion home poge by Donelson Forsyth (NEW)
    Nonverbal Links by Jaume Masip
    Center for Nonverbal Studies
    Group 3's Nonverbal Web Page
    Scott Plouss's Social Psychology Network Site
    Statistical Analysis for Dyadic Interaction Page by Dave Kenny
    Willibald Ruch's Humor Research Page
    Donn King's Page on Nonverbal Communication
    Donn King's Page on Gender Differences in Nonverbal Communication

    Organizations

    American Psychological Association
    American Psychological Society
    Western Psychological Association (NEW)
    Society for Personality and Social Psychology
    International Network on Personal Relationships
    International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships
    International Communication Association
    Eastern Communication Association
    Association for Chinese Communication Studies
    New Jersey Communication Association

    Journal Home Pages

    Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
    Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
    Journal of Personal Relationships (Cambridge Univ Press)
    Journal of Personal Relationships (ISSR page about the journal)
    Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
    Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
    Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (Official from Publisher)
    Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (Unofficial)
    Behavior, Research, Instruments, & Computers Journal
    Search the Communication Journals Go to this site and do keyword searches on 3 communication journals or become a member and search all communication journals at once!

    People who Study Nonverbal Communication (Updated)

    Andreas Altorfer
    Mathew Ansfield
    Diane Berry
    Ross Buck
    Daphne Bugental
    Bella DePaulo
    John Dovidio
    Kari Edwards
    Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
    Paul Ekman
    Phoebe Ellsworth
    Alan Fridlund
    Robert Feldman
    Howard Friedman
    Robert Gifford
    David Givens
    Karl Grammer
    Judith A. Hall
    Amy G. Halberstadt
    Jinni Harrigan
    Monica Harris
    Marvin A. Hecht
    Ursula Hess
    Arvid Kappas
    Robert Kleck
    Robert Kraut
    Marianne LaFrance
    James Laird
    Albert Mehrabian
    Gabriel Ra'am
    Ronald Riggio
    Robert Rosenthal
    Willibald Ruch
    Klaus Scherer
    Joan Tucker
    Leslie Zebrowitz

    People who Study Interpersonal Sensitivity (NVC as a Skill)

    Nalini Ambady
    Randall Colvin
    Mark Costanzo
    William Ickes

    Links to Various Labs Studying Nonverbal Communication

    Various Facial Expression Labs, Including Ekman's
    Human Behavior Lab, Iceland
    Human Communication Lab, Psychiatric Institutions University of Berne
    Human Communication Lab, Columbia University
    International Society for Human Ethology
    Arvid Kappas Emotion Lab at University of Laval
    Laboratory of Nonverbal Semiotics
    Ursula Hess Lab (Social Psychophysiology Lab)
    Psychophysiology Lab at Berkeley

    BOOKS

    Recent Nonverbal Communication books by publisher

    Allyn & Bacon
  • Leathers, D. (1997). (3rd. ed.) Successful Nonverbal Communication: Principles and Applications.
  • Richmond, V. P., & McCroskey, J. C. (1995). (3rd ed).Nonverbal Behavior in Interpersonal Relations.

    Cambridge University Press
  • Blanck, P. D. (1994). (Ed.). Interpersonal expectations: Theory, research, applications.
  • Burgoon, J., Stern, L. A. & Dillman, L. (1995). Interpersonal adaptation: Dyadic interaction patterns.
  • Feldman, R. S., & Rime. (1991). (Eds.) Fundamentals of nonverbal behavior.
  • Hatfield, Cacioppo, J. T., & Rapson, R. L. (1994). Emotional Contagion.
  • Philippot, P., Feldman, R. S., & Coats, E. J. (Eds.). (forthcoming in 1998). The social context of nonverbal behavior.

    Harcourt Brace College Publishers
  • Knapp, M. L., & Hall, J. A. (1997). Nonverbal communication in human interaction. (4th ed.)

    Lawrence Erblaum and Associates
  • Feldman, R. S. (1992). (Ed).Applications of nonverbal behavioral theories and research.
  • Kalbfleisch, P. (1993). Interpersonal Communication: Evolving Interpersonal Relationshsips.
  • Kalbfleisch, P. J., & Cody, M. J. (1995). (Eds). Gender, power, and communication in human relationships.
  • Kendon, A. (1994). Guest Editor for Special Issue of "Research on Language and Social Interaction" entitled "Gesture and understanding in social interaction.
  • Segerstrale, U., & Molnar, P. (1997). (Eds). Nonverbal Communication: Where Nature Meets Culture.
  • Siegman, A. W., & Feldstein, S. (1985). Multichannel Integrations of Nonverbal Behavior. (Note: Foozles Books in Cambridge's Porter Square had 2 copies left as of 6/12/97).


    Sage Publishers
  • Ketrow, Sandra M. (in press). Nonverbal aspects of group communication. In L. Frey Handbook of small group communication Newbury Park: Sage.

    Resources for Teaching and Training

    On-Line Test of Ability to read nonverbal cues
    Videos on Nonverbal Communication (UC Berkeley Media Center)
    Slide Set on Nonverbal Communication

    Selected On-Line Articles/Essays/Fun Stuff

    Flirting Article from American Airlines Magazine
    The nonverbal dictionary of signs and gestures by David Givens
    Nonverbal FAQ and Q&A by David Givens
    Why is Mona Lisa Smiling? Click here
    Evolution of the human smile from Scientific American
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