Interpersonal and Small Group Communication
Nonverbal Communication & Body Language
- Center for Nonverbal Studies
- Includes The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues by David B. Givens
- Exploring Nonverbal Communication
- This site supplements a videotape series produced by Dane Archer, UC Santa Cruz. Includes a self test in 7 categories, a brief overview of the topic and a sales pitch for the video tape.
- The Johnson Treatment
- Photos of Lyndon Baines Johnson's nonverbal rhetorical style
- Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
- Submission information and Tables of Contents beginning with the year 2000 issues.
- Nonverbal Behavior, Nonverbal Communication Links
- Nonverbal Communication Research Page
- Marvin A. Hecht created this page of links to other nonverbal scholars and resources.
- Nonverbal Communication
- Links from the National Communication Association (NCA) - links to bodylanguage, proxemics & other nonverbal communication resources
- Selected Literature: Nonverbal Communication
- Prof. wolfgang michel-zaitsu compiled this bibliography - large focus on Japanese and cross-cultural nonverbal communication sources.
- Nonverbal Communication Bibliography
- This one compiled by James Roiger, University of Arkansas at Monticello
- Affect Control Theory
- Readings, data and software. "Affect control theory proposes that people conduct themselves so their feelings are appropriate to the situation, and if their actions can't do this then they change their views of the situation. People's emotions signal how well events are maintaining their definitions of situations."
- Attribution Theory of Fritz Heider
- From A First look at Communication Theory, 2nd Ed. by Em Griffin.
- Beyond the Looking Glass: Selected works of Charles Horton Cooley
- A Mead project Web site at the Department of Sociology of Brock University. Includes Human Nature and Social Order, Social Organization: A Study of the Larger Mind, and several articles.
- Contingency and Complexity in the Social Theory of Niklas Luhmann
- "Niklas Luhmann has provided a view of social theory from the perspective of contemporary systems theory which highlights a large number of social mechanisms that tend to be overlooked in the more traditional approaches. " --Wallace H. Provost Jr. Also see: Luhmann, Habermas, and the Theory of Communication by Loet Leydesdorff and Foundations of Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Social Systems by Alex Viskavatoff
- Conversational Cheap Shots
- Theory light but compiled in the spirit of fun, based on real behavior.
- Erving Goffman - Presentation of Self
- Summary of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Adam Barnhart.
See also: Wikipedia entry - George's Page: A Mead Project
- "A Web-based repository for documents by, about and related to the work of American pragmatist philosopher and social psychologist George Herbert Mead" from the Sociology Department at Brock University.
- George Herbert Mead - Social Attitudes and the Physical World
- An excerpt from Mind, Self and Society
- Gender, Pseudonyms, and CMC: Masking Identities and Baring Souls
- This study investigates whether the use of pseudonyms mitigates gender-based differences of communication patterns in a computer-mediated communication (CMC) context. By J. Michael Jaffe, Young- Eum Lee, Li-Ning Huang, and Hayg Oshagan.
- Howard Journal of Communications
- U.Iowa people can access full text from any campus computer or with your UI. ID number from off campus.
- Journal of Family Communication
- Sample issue online. Electronic subscriptions available.
- Kismet: A Robot for Social Interactions with Humans by Cynthia Breazeal
- "Kismet is an autonomous robot designed for social interactions with humans and is part of the larger Cog Project" [at MIT]. This project focuses … on the construction of robots that engage in meaningful social exchanges with humans. … Our approach is inspired by the way infants learn to communicate with adults. Specifically, the mode of social interaction is that of a caretaker-infant dyad where a human acts as the caretaker for the robot."
- In my mind, my friend smiles: A case of in-group favoritism. (PDF)
- Ursula Hess & M.G. Beaupré. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Other articles and book chapters reproduced at Ursula Hess's site include: "The influence of expression intensity, gender and ethnicity on judgments of dominance and affiliation." "Emotional expressivity in men and women: stereotypes versus self-perceptions." "Facial reactions to emotional facial expressions." "Who to whom and why - cultural differences and similarities in the function of smiles." "The communication of emotion."
- Interpersonal Web
- Hypertextual approach to: cultural context, communication process, self concept, relational development, listening & perception, verbal and nonverbal messages, types of relationships, communication process at Northern Virginia Community College.
- Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science
- A page of links to sources on phenomenology, existentialism, pragmatism, consciousness, embodiment, non-western thought, and many more topics.
- Radical Constructivism
- An online introduction to the theorists, ideas, books and other resources compiled by by Alex Riegler of the Austrian Society of Cognitive Science, at the University of Vienna.
- Self-Organization, Autopoiesis, and Enterprises
- "'Self-organization' is a popular theme in current studies of human
social activity, enterprises, and information technology (IT). This document
introduces one well-developed theory of self-organization (autopoietic theory)
and discusses its application to enterprises and their management." --Randall
Whitaker, PhD
See also: Autopoietic Theory and Social Systems: Theory and Practice - Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI)
- Membership information, calls for papers, archives of the listserv INTERACT, and links.
- Social Psychophysiology Laboratory
- Click on "Reprints" for Acrobat Reader versions of articles on the expression of emotion.
- Steve's Primer of Practical Persuasion and Influence
- Steve Booth-Butterfield is Branch Chief, Health Communication Research Branch of NIOSH, and adjunct professor West Virginia University.
- Suzette Haden Elgin's World Verbal Self-Defense League
- Elgin holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley. Besides having written a number of books on "verbal self-defense" Elgin is the author of a number of science fiction books with linguistic themes including Native Tongue, The Judas Rose, and Earthsong.
- Thinking About Organizations as Systems
- Written by Carter McNamara, PhD. Basic introduction with links to further information
- Qualitative Research Listservs
- The Quailtative Report
- An online journal dedicated to qualitative research and critical inquiry.
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