- Integrates the knowledge and perspectives from authors
representing eight different countries around the world - Each
chapter summarizes current theory and research associated with
behaviors and behavioral processes in which nonverbal cues play
a crucial role in the outcome - The book addresses theoretical
issues necessary for advancing future research as well as
practical issues necessary for a better understanding of
everyday social situations. Aims and Scope The current volume
will emphasize uses, purposes, origins, and consequences of
nonverbal communication in the lives of individuals, dyads, and
groups-in other words, the behavior of human beings. As such, it
will not emphasize communication systems per se nor the impact
on humans of the physical environment, whether built or natural.
With a field as widely represented as this one, full coverage
within one volume is impossible. Therefore, the decision was
made by the volume Editors to cover many different topics, the
volume's unity will derive from it