This study aimed to examine nonverbal expressions of older adults performing a Feeling-of-Knowing (FOK) metamemory task, since nonverbal cues are considered to serve as indicators of memory deficit awareness. In a production experiment, we collected a variety of recalled and unrecalled answers from older adults (mean age = 79.5) and tested their accuracy. Nonverbal behavior was annotated manual...

The present work examined the detection of racial bias through thin slices of nonverbal behavior. Thirty Black and 30 White American judges rated the nonverbal behavior displayed by White individuals from 20-seconds of silent videotape of an interaction with either a Black or a White confederate. Correlations between judges’ nonverbal ratings and targets’ scores on a response latency measure of...

Codification of nonverbal elements in subtitling movies is a challenge for translators. The aim of this study was to investigate the strategies used by Iranian subtitlers for codification of nonverbal elements in subti- tling English movies into Persian using Perego’s shifts and strategies (2003). For this purpose, a selection of 20 English movies (ST) with their...

Using  willingness  to  communicate  (WTC)  and  socio-educational  models  as  a  framework,  the present study aimed at examining WTC in English and its underlying variables in a sample of 372 Iranian  non-English  major  EFL  learners.  The  data  were  collected  through  self-reported questionnaires.  Path  analysis  framework  using  the  Amos  Program  with  maximum  likelihood estimatio...

This study shows that the recent 80% decrease in dealer inventories of corporate bonds has increased the cost of immediacy. For safe bonds which are quickly turned over again by dealers the increase is up to 15%, while for risky bonds which are kept on inventory by dealers the increase is up to 100% on average. The time series of transaction costs is estimated using the natural experiment of co...

Issue 23 - From 14 to 31 May 2010, the Yugoslavian-born performance artist Marina Abramović mounted a large-scale retrospective of her work at Museum Modern Art, New York. Designed “to transmit presence and make historical performances accessible larger audience”, Abramović: The Artist is Present included re-enactments several signature works performed by younger artists (chosen coached A...

This study examined the effectiveness of enhancing humanagent interaction through the use of nonverbal behaviors. A taxonomy is described, which organizes nonverbal behaviors into functional categories and the manner in which they can be embodied (i.e. through gesture, posture, paralanguage, eye contact and facial expression). Prototype computer characters were created according to guidelines e...