Nonverbal Behavior

1. Front Matter

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2. Defining a Perspective on Nonverbal Behavior

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   Pages 1-11

3. Developing a Sequential Functional Model

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   Pages 13-34

4. The Informational Function

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   Pages 35-55

5. Regulating Interaction

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6. Intimacy

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7. Social Control

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8. The Service-Task Function

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9. Antecedent Influences

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10. An Overview: Problems and Prospects

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11. Back Matter

    Pages 181-216

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My interest in nonverbal behavior has remained constant for over 15 years. I think this has been the case because nonverbal behavior has proved a very fascinating and challenging topic. Others might suggest that I am just a slow learner. With enough time in any area, however, one begins to feel that he or she has some special insights to offer to others. About the time that I was struck with that thought, approximately two and a half years ago, I was developing the first version of my sequential functional model of nonverbal exchange. It seemed to me that the func­ tional model might provide a very useful framework for a book discussing and analyzing nonverbal behavior. I did not want (nor do I think I had the patience) to write a comprehensive review of research on nonverbal behavior. Other works, such as Siegman and Feldstein's (1978) edited Nonverbal Behavior and Commu­ nication, and Harper, Wiens, and Matarazzo's (1978) Nonverbal Communication: The State of the Art, have provided excellent reviews of the research on nonverbal behavior. Instead, what I have tried to do in this book is to use nonverbal behavior as a vehicle for discussing social behavior. In a very real sense, this analysis of nonverbal behavior is a means to an end, not an end in itself. A consequence of this approach is that this review is a selective one, unlike the comprehensive works mentioned earlier.

• Kommunikation
• Persuasion
• behavior
• communication
• interaction
• research
• state

• Department of Psychology, University of Missouri—St. Louis, St. Louis, USA

  Miles L. Patterson

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