Gender and Nonverbal Behavior

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Assessing the Research Findings

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Nonverbal Behavior: Barrier or Agent for Sex Role Change?

      • Clara Mayo, Nancy M. Henley

      Pages 3-13

   3. Gender Patterns in Touching Behavior

      • Brenda Major

      Pages 15-37

   4. Women and Nonverbal Leadership Cues: When Seeing Is Not Believing

      • Natalie Porter, Florence Geis

      Pages 39-61

   5. Visual Behavior and Dominance in Women and Men

      • Steve L. Ellyson, John F. Dovidio, B. J. Fehr

      Pages 63-79

   6. Sex Differences in Body Movements and Positions

      • Martha Davis, Shirley Weitz

      Pages 81-92

3. Androgyny: Promises and Pitfalls

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Sex-Role Influences in Dyadic Interaction: A Theoretical Model

      • William Ickes

      Pages 95-128

   3. Gender Gestures: Sex, Sex-Role, and Nonverbal Communication

      • Marianne LaFrance

      Pages 129-150

   4. Gender, Androgyny, and Conversational Assertiveness

      • Faye Crosby, Paul Jose, William Wong-McCarthy

      Pages 151-169

   5. A Feminist Critique of Androgyny: Toward the Elimination of Gender Attributions for Learned Behavior

      • Bernice Lott

      Pages 171-180

4. The Uncharted Frontiers of Development and Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. The Development of Sex Differences in Nonverbal Signals: Fallacies, Facts, and Fantasies

      • Jeannette Jones Haviland, Carol Zander Malatesta

      Pages 183-208

   3. The Seven Ages of Woman: A View From American Magazine Advertisements

      • Jean Umiker-Sebeok

      Pages 209-252

   4. Nonverbal Behavior and Lesbian/Gay Orientation

      • Patricia Webbink

      Pages 253-259

   5. Nonverbal Processes in Feminist Therapy

      • Elizabeth Robson

      Pages 261-269

5. Back Matter

   Pages 271-284

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This book addresses two lively and active research communities, those concerned with issues of gender and those dealing with nonverbal behavior. The wide range of professional and popular interest in both these topics convinced us that presen­ tations of current work by researchers who bring these two areas of research together would prove stimulating. These presentations not only address the state of current work on gender and nonverbal behavior, but also suggest new avenues of investigation for those interested primarily in either topic. In other words, the questions that nonverbal communication researchers address when considering gender bring new directions to gender-related research and a like effect can be expected when the questions raised in gender studies are applied to research in nonverbal behavior. Dispersion of ideas may take another form as well. Both gender and nonverbal behavior research are notably interdisciplinary. Perhaps because of their pervasive nature, both topics have attracted the attention of a diversity of scholars. Most of the contributions in the present volume are by psychologists, but their intended audience is broad. Linguists, sociologists, and anthropologists are among those who share similar research interests. Moreover, the ideas presented here are of interest to practitioners as well as scholars. From corporations to clinics, people are interested in the subtle expression and negotiation of sex roles through non­ verbal communication.

• Geschlecht
• Kommunikation
• Stereotyp
• Verhaltensforschung
• behavior
• communication
• conflict
• gender
• psychology
• social psychology
• sexual behaviour

• Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, USA

  Clara Mayo

• Department of Psychology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

  Nancy M. Henley

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