Successful Nonverbal Communication: Principles and Applications

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Routledge, Oct 5, 2017 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 436 pages

Successful Nonverbal Communication: Principles and Applications demonstrates how knowledge of nonverbal messages can affect successful communication in the real world. Now with fifteen chapters, the fifth edition draws students in through applications of the latest nonverbal communication research and through current examples of celebrities, sports, and politicians. This extensive revision describes nonverbal cues and their desirable and undesirable functions while offering original tests for measuring and developing nonverbal communication skills. Updates include new attention to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama, and discussion of nonverbal communication within same-sex partnerships.

 

Contents

Preface
PART
Nonverbal Communication 1 The Nature of Nonverbal Communication
Facial Expressions
Eye Behaviors
Bodily Communication
Proxemic Communication
Tactile Communication
Vocalic Communication
PART 2
Impression Management
Politics and Sales
Detecting Deception
PART 3
Nonverbal Determinants of Successful Interviews
Gender and Interaction

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Michael H. Eaves is a full professor of Communication Arts at Valdosta State University, and has been a professor there since 1993. Eaves has been the director of speech and debate at Valdosta State University since beginning there in 1993, and is a member of the National Communication Association.

Dale Leathers (1938–1997) was the sole author of editions one, two, and three of Successful Nonverbal Communication. He was a professor of speech communication at the University of Georgia as well as a former president of the National Communication Association and the Southern States Communication Association.

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