Development of Nonverbal Behavior in Children

1. Front Matter

   Pages N1-xii

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2. Psychobiological and Ethological Approaches to Nonverbal Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Ethological Approaches to Nonverbal Communication

      • Linda A. Camras

      Pages 3-28

   3. Spontaneous and Symbolic Nonverbal Behavior and the Ontogeny of Communication

      • Ross Buck

      Pages 29-62

   4. Watching the Sands Shift: Conceptualizing Development of Nonverbal Mastery

      • Gail Zivin

      Pages 63-98

3. Social Developmental Approaches to Nonverbal Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. The Development of Control over Affective Expression in Nonverbal Behavior

      • William A. Shennum, Daphne B. Bugental

      Pages 101-121

   3. Social and Affective Functions of Nonverbal Behavior: Developmental Concerns

      • Carolyn Saarni

      Pages 123-147

4. Cognitive Development and Encoding and Decoding Skill Approaches to Nonverbal Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Age Changes in Deceiving and Detecting Deceit

      • Bella M. DePaulo, Audrey Jordan

      Pages 151-180

   3. Children’s Nonverbal Encoding and Decoding of Affect

      • Nancy Lee Morency, Robert M. Krauss

      Pages 181-199

5. Discrepant Communication Approaches to Nonverbal Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. Developing Strategies for Decoding “Leaky” Messages: On Learning How and When to Decode Discrepant and Consistent Social Communications

      • Peter D. Blanck, Robert Rosenthal

      Pages 203-229

   3. Responses to Consistent and Discrepant Social Communications

      • Fred R. Volkmar, Alberta E. Siegel

      Pages 231-255

6. Personality Development and Individual Difference Approaches to Nonverbal Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257

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   2. Social Skills and Nonverbal Behavior

      • Robert S. Feldman, John B. White, Debra Lobato

      Pages 259-277

   3. Individual Differences in the Expressivity of Neonates and Young Infants

      • Tiffany Field

      Pages 279-298

7. Back Matter

   Pages 299-315

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When I organized a symposium on the development of nonverbal behavior for the 1980 meeting ofthe American Psychological Association, I was faced with an embarrassment of riches. Thinking about the many people who were doing important and interesting research in this area, it was hard to narrow down the choice to just a few. Eventually, I put together a panel which at least was representative of this burgeoning area of research. In planning this volume two years later, I was faced with much the same predicament, except to an even larger degree. For, during that short period, the area of children's nonverbal behavior carne to grow even larger, with more perspectives being brought to bear on the question of the processes involved in the development of children's nonverbal behav­ ior. The present volume attempts to capture these advances which have occurred as the field of children's nonverbal behavior has moved from its own infancy into middle childhood. The book is organized into five major areas, representative of the most important approaches to the study of children's nonverbal behavior: 1) Psychobiological and ethological approaches, 2) social developmental approaches, 3) encoding and decoding skill approaches, 4) discrepant verbal-nonverbal communication approaches, and 5) personality and individual difference approaches. The discreteness of these categories should not be overemphasized, as there is a good deal of overlap between the various approaches. Nonetheless, they do represent the major areas of interest in the field ofthe development ofnonverbal behavior in children.

• Ausdruck
• Behavior
• Kind
• Körperhaltung
• development
• thinking

• Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts—Amherst, Amherst, USA

  Robert S. Feldman

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