A study was conducted to examine the effects of child abuse and neglect on children's nonverbal behaviors. It was hypothesized that abused and neglected children would be less active nonverbally than would control group children. Eight abused and neglected, children, aged one through three years, were videotaped interacting with their caregivers in a daycare center, and their behavior was compa...

Recent years have seen a growing recognition of the central role of affect and motivation in learning. In particular, nonverbal behaviors such as posture and gesture provide key channels signaling affective and motivational states. Developing a clear understanding of these mechanisms will inform the development of personalized learning environments that promote successful affective and motivati...

Gaze is one of the most important nonverbal behaviors in regulating humanhuman interactions in close encounters. Several approaches have been proposed to design robots that can exhibit human-like natural gazing behavior. Most of the available techniques though are based on careful hard-coding of behavioral rules that are usually extracted from analysis of human-human interaction corpora or theo...

Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) commonly possess unique neurocognitive and neurobehavioral profiles that emerge within specific developmental periods. These profiles are distinct relative to others with similar intellectual disability (ID) and reflect underlying neuroanatomic findings, providing support for a distinctive phenotypic profile. This review updates what is known about the cognit...

The susceptibility of eyewitnesses to verbal suggestion has been well documented, although little attention has been paid to the role of nonverbal communication in misinformation. Three experiments are reported; in each, participants watched footage of a crime scene before being questioned about what they had observed. In Experiments 1 and 2, an on-screen interviewer accompanied identically wor...

BACKGROUND Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by a reduced ability to understand the emotional expressions on other people's faces. Increasing evidence indicates that children with ASD might not recognize or understand crucial nonverbal behaviors, which likely causes them to ignore nonverbal gestures and social cues, like facial expressions, that usually aid social interaction. ...

Background. Nonverbal behaviors have a significant impact on patients during consultations. This study was undertaken to find out the attitudes and preferences of the patients regarding nonverbal communication during consultations with physicians, in a tertiary care hospital. Methods. A questionnaire based cross-sectional study was carried out at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakis...

Nonverbal behaviors such as facial expressions, eye contact, gestures, postures and their coordination with voice tone and prosody have strong impact on the process of communicative interactions. Successful employment of nonverbal behaviors plays an important role in interpersonal communication in the classroom between students and the teacher. Student teachers need to improve their teaching sk...

PURPOSE To review systematically the impact of clinicians' personality and observed interpersonal behaviors on the quality of their patient care. DATA SOURCES We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE and PsycINFO from inception through January 2014, using both free text words and subject headings, without language restriction. Additional hand-searching was performed. STUDY SELECTION The PRISMA framework...

Cognitive control mechanisms allow individuals to behave adaptively in the face of complex and sometimes conflicting information. Although the neural bases of these control mechanisms have been examined in many contexts, almost no attention has been paid to their role in resolving conflicts between competing social cues, which is surprising given that cognitive conflicts are part of many social...