Six tests of nonverbal communication skills were investigated in an attempt to improve prediction of success for psychologists and counselors. The subjects were graduate students at two different schools; the criterion variables were faculty members' judgments of the students' academic work, interpersonal rela tions, personal characteristics, and "predicted effectiveness" in the profession. Fac...

Uncertainty monitoring is a core property of metacognition, allowing individuals to adapt their decision-making strategies depending on the state of their knowledge. Although it has been argued that other animals share these metacognitive abilities, only humans seem to possess the ability to explicitly communicate their own uncertainty to others. It remains unknown whether this capacity is pres...

IRWA’s Communication/Acquisition Courses emphasize that successful right of way agents, when conducting an acquisition, listen far more than they talk and typically demonstrate exceptional listening skills. Scholars researching the field of human behavior and communication have concluded that the best negotiators, which would include the best right of way acquisition agents, not only have outst...

Nonverbal communication has been noticed for centuries1 and recently has become a major focus of attention for researchers and practitioners in many different fields. Although nonverbal communication has been subjected to intensive scientific study for over twenty-five years,3 lawyers have just begun to realize what others have long known: nonverbal behavior is extremely important in determinin...

Faces are crucial for nonverbal communication in humans and related species. From the first moments of life, newborn infants prefer to look at human faces over almost any other form of stimuli. Since this finding was first observed, there has been much debate regarding the "special" nature of face processing. Researchers have put forward numerous developmental models that attempt to account for...

This article discusses the phenomenon of nonverbal communication as evidenced between preoperative patients and the nurses attending them. Ten such patients and the nursing group assigned to them were directly observed for frequency of nonverbal interaction during the period immediately preceding surgery. Patients' nonverbal expressions of tension, fear, anxiety, and so on were noted, videotape...

Computer Mediated Communication Abstract Time related (chronemic) cues are an important component of nonverbal communication. Do they also act as nonverbal cues in computer mediated communication? 55 participants were asked to rate a job candidate described in a vignette. Candidates varied in their valence (high valence, low valence) and in their response latency to an email (normative one day ...