There is a gap in the medical education literature on teaching nonverbal detection and expression of empathy. Many articles do not address nonverbal interactions, instead focusing on "what to say" rather than "how to be." This focus on verbal communication overlooks the essential role nonverbal signals play in the communication of emotions, which has significant effects on patient satisfaction,...

In an attempt to replicate earlier research on intelligent agents for robots, we analysed the effects of the presence and absence of a robot ́s nonverbal behavior on users ́ nonverbal behavior and evaluation with a between subjects experimental study (N = 90). Results demonstrated that when the robot shows nonverbal behavior (head movement and deictic, illustrative and rhythmic gesture) participa...

Facial expression is one of the most significant ways to express the intention, emotion and other nonverbal messages of human beings. A computerized human emotion recognition system based on Contourlet transformation is proposed. In order to analyze the presented study, seven kind of human emotions such as anger, fear, happiness, surprise, sadness, disgust and neutral of facial images are taken...

We present results from a pilot study to investigate the evidence for convergence and synchrony in cognitive and noncognitive behavior of dyads engaged in a collaborative activity. Our approach utilizes multimodal data including video and participant action log files retrieved from the collaborative activity, an online educational simulation on science topics. The log files captured cognitive b...

The ability to design tailored messages for specific listeners is an important aspect of human communication. The present study investigates whether a mere belief about an addressee's identity influences the generation and production of a communicative message in a novel, non-verbal communication task. Participants were made to believe they were playing a game with a child or an adult partner, ...

Although people with negative self-views want to be liked at some level, they repeatedly enact behaviors that alienate their relationship partners. Why? One possibility is that such persons reside in social environments that offer them little insight into what they are doing wrong. Although persons who had negative self-views elicited unfavorable reactions, they did not appreciate this fact bec...

This study aimed to examine nonverbal expressions of older adults performing a Feeling-of-Knowing (FOK) metamemory task, since nonverbal cues are considered to serve as indicators of memory deficit awareness. In a production experiment, we collected a variety of recalled and unrecalled answers from older adults (mean age = 79.5) and tested their accuracy. Nonverbal behavior was annotated manual...

The present work examined the detection of racial bias through thin slices of nonverbal behavior. Thirty Black and 30 White American judges rated the nonverbal behavior displayed by White individuals from 20-seconds of silent videotape of an interaction with either a Black or a White confederate. Correlations between judges’ nonverbal ratings and targets’ scores on a response latency measure of...

Codification of nonverbal elements in subtitling movies is a challenge for translators. The aim of this study was to investigate the strategies used by Iranian subtitlers for codification of nonverbal elements in subti- tling English movies into Persian using Perego’s shifts and strategies (2003). For this purpose, a selection of 20 English movies (ST) with their...

Since the earliest televised debates, cognitive and political sciences have been interested in how voters respond to political candidates and their messages, both verbal and nonverbal. The present work draws from this long tradition and combines it with work on persuasion and rhetoric to inform analyses of a new corpus of debate data: 48 transcripts from the Intelligence Squared U.S. series, te...