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Personality and Nonverbal Involvement: A Functional Analysis

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Personality, Roles, and Social Behavior

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Systematic research into the nonverbal components of social behavior has been common only in the last 15 to 20 years. From hindsight the relatively late development of this area seems puzzling. This is especially the case in the light of judgments by researchers such as Mehrabian (1972, chap. 6) and Birdwhistell (1970, p. 158) that the majority of the meaning conveyed in a social interaction is determined by the nonverbal cues. It is not my intention to discuss the reasons for the relatively recent development of this research area. Instead, I will attempt to analyze some of the consistencies in nonverbal social behavior apparent in the extensive research over the last two decades.

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    Eric S. Knowles

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Patterson, M.L. (1982). Personality and Nonverbal Involvement: A Functional Analysis. In: Ickes, W., Knowles, E.S. (eds) Personality, Roles, and Social Behavior. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9469-3_5

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