Authors: Aleksandra Kostić, Derek Chadee (Editor) (eds.)
Paperback: 344 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1137345853
ISBN-13: 9781137345851
Published: 2014
Description
The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication gathers together leading scholars of nonverbal communication from around the world to offer insight into a range of issues within the discipline. The collection presents contemporary research and theorization of the nature, functions, and modalities of nonverbal behavior in an array of circumstances, with the aim of rethinking current approaches to the subject. This book will be of great interest to academics and nonverbal communication researchers, as well as to anyone who wants to interpret and better understand nonverbal behavior.
About Aleksandra Kostic
Aleksandra Kostic is Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University of Nis, Serbia. Her research interests include nonverbal communication, emotional experience, ethnic identity, and similarities and differences between cultures. Derek Chadee is Professor of Social Psychology at the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Director of the ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. His current research interests include the social psychology of fear of crime and general fear, antecedents of emotions, copy-cat behaviour, media, HIV, AIDS and jury decision making. He is also a Fulbright Scholar undertaking research on fear of crime in two American universities.
