Defendant remorse is generally accepted as a mitigating factor in capital murder sentencing in the legal system. The current study addressed whether verbal and nonverbal expressions of defendant remorse are perceived as remorseful by mock jurors. Moreover, this study investigated the associations of defendant behaviors and mock juror need for affect on sentencing decisions. Participants watched...

BACKGROUND The physician-patient interview is the key component of all health care, particularly of primary medical care. This review sought to evaluate existing primary-care-based research studies to determine which verbal and nonverbal behaviors on the part of the physician during the medical encounter have been linked in empirical studies with favorable patient outcomes. METHODS We reviewe...

This research provides a systematic analysis of the nonverbal expression of pride. Study 1 manipulated behavioral movements relevant to pride (e.g., expanded posture and head tilt) to identify the most prototypical pride expression and determine the specific components that are necessary and sufficient for reliable recognition. Studies 2 and 3 tested whether the 2 conceptually and empirically d...

Background: Achieving the characteristics of effective teaching can play an undeniable role in assurance of education. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between some nonverbalbehaviors of university professors during classroom teaching and the level of students’ learning. Methods: In this cross sectional study, a list of professors’ nonverbal behaviors and dynamic characteris...

In many legal proceedings, fact finders scrutinize the demeanor of a defendant or witness, particularly his or her nonverbal behavior, for indicators of deception. This meta-analysis investigated directly observable nonverbal correlates of deception as a function of different moderator variables. Although lay people and professionals alike assume that many nonverbal behaviors are displayed more...

As the basis of generating nonverbal expressions in animated agents, this paper proposes factors that account for cultural difference in nonverbal behaviors in negotiation interaction. First, we introduce theories of negotiation and cultural characteristics. Then, our analysis of human interaction in negotiation conversations in CUBE-G corpus is described. Finally, by integrating cultural and n...

Modeling human nonverbal behaviors is a key factor in creating a successful virtual human system. This is a very challenging problem because human nonverbal behaviors inherently contain a lot of variability. The variability comes from many possible sources, such as the participant’s interactional goal, conversational roles, personality and emotions and so on, making the analysis of the variabil...

Nonverbal behaviors play an important role in communication for both humans and social robots. However, adding contextually appropriate animations by hand is time consuming and does not scale well. Previous researchers have developed automated systems for inserting animations based on utterance text, yet these systems lack human understanding of social context and are still being improved. This...

Abstract Background Behavioral symptoms during mealtime can prohibit persons living with dementia from obtaining sufficient nutrition. However, little research has examined the relationship between behavioral and caregiving approaches. This study examines this further explores which specific caregiver behaviors were related to among dementia. Methods A secondary data analysis was performed usin...