Abstract Background and Objectives Optimal dyadic interactions are critical to quality mealtime care outcomes. Prior work supports associative relationships between staff approaches individual behaviors, yet evidence on temporal is limited. This study examined associations resident behaviors during mealtimes. Research Design Methods Videotaped observations (N=160) involving 36 27 residents (53 ...

In human-human conversation, people spontaneously adjust their verbal and nonverbal behaviors to each other-most of the time without being aware it. This installment Computer's series highlighting work published in IEEE Computer Society journals comes from Transactions on Affective Computing.

Ethnicity has been defined primarily by the physical appearance of pedagogical agents. Research has shown that shared ethnicity between the agent and the user reflects in a positive perception of the agent's capabilities and provides motivation for learning tasks for students of color (Baylor, 2005; Nass et al., 2000). However, research has failed to examine what kinds of implementations of ped...

The Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) was used to examine diagnostic profiles and age-related changes in autism symptoms for a group of verbal children and adolescents who had fragile X syndrome, with and without autism. After controlling for nonverbal IQ, we found statistically significant between-group differences for lifetime and current autism symptoms for the Communication and Re...

In medicine, it is critical that clinicians demonstrate both empathy (perceived as warmth) and competence. Perceptions of these qualities are often intuitive and are based on nonverbal behavior. Emphasizing both warmth and competence may prove problematic, however, because there is evidence that they are inversely related in other settings. We hypothesize that perceptions of physician competenc...

Public shaming has long been thought to promote positive behavioral change. However, studies suggest that shame may be a detrimental response to problematic behavior because it motivates hiding, escape, and general avoidance of the problem. We tested whether shame about one’s past addictive drinking (measured via nonverbal displays and self-report) predicts future drinking behaviors and changes...

Differing etiological explanations have been proposed to account for poor comprehenders' difficulties with reading comprehension, with some researchers emphasizing working memory deficits and others arguing for oral language weaknesses playing a key causal role. The authors contrasted these two theoretical accounts using data obtained from direct measures of working memory and from teacher rati...