- Nonverbal Behavior in Human Interactions

Catalog description

This course explores questions about how people communicate with their bodies. How do we perceive such nonverbal cues? How do they affect our interactions and relationships with others? To what extent are we aware of our own nonverbal behavior and what it communicates to others? The research areas include interpersonal accuracy (e.g., emotion recognition, deception detection, etc.); embodied cognition (e.g., behavioral mimicry, the role of gestures in learning, etc.), and ecological psychology (e.g., territoriality, personal space, seating arrangements, etc.). The course also addresses cultural similarities and differences, and how nonverbal behavior affects interpersonal as well as intergroup relations.