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Successful Nonverbal Communication: Principles and Applications, 4/E
Dale Leathers, Late, University of Georgia
Michael H. Eaves, Valdosta State University

ISBN-10: 0205617425
ISBN-13: 9780205617425

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 416 pp
Published: 10/15/2007

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Successful Nonverbal Communication: Principles and Applications demonstrates how knowledge of nonverbal messages can affect successful communication in the real world. This extensive revision describes nonverbal cues and their desirable and non-desirable functions while offering original tests for measuring and developing nonverbal communication skills. This text draws students into the material through helpful applications of the latest nonverbal communication research and through current examples of celebrities, sports and politicians.

  

Significant updates are found in the chapters on tactile communication, personal appearance, political debates, intercultural communication and virtual contexts. The highlight of this rewrite is the cutting-edge scholarship that is seamlessly interwoven throughout the text.  


 

  • Unique photo quizzes enable students to measure and develop their nonverbal communication skills, creating opportunities for them to apply the content to their own lives.  
  • An entire chapter focuses on selling yourself nonverbally in politics and sales, including detailed analyses of George W. Bush, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s nonverbal credibility.
  • A section on the nonverbal determinants of successful interviews (Ch. 12) teaches students the tricks and tips for being a better interviewee, and helps them discover the meanings behind the nonverbal styles of the interviewer.
  • The updated information on communicating nonverbally in a foreign culture includes new sections on chronemics (time) and olfactics (odor).
  • Extensive coverage of tactile communication (Ch. 6), allows students to see how nonverbal communication develops in both romantic and sexual relationships.
  • The chapter on personal appearance (Ch. 7) teaches students how physical attractiveness impacts adolescents’ self-concept.
  • The text has been reorganized into 15 chapters, aligning it with the length of a semester to make the content more manageable and course scheduling easier.

  • Two chapters on impression management and impression formation (previously Ch. 9 & 10) have been combined into one chapter called Impression Management (now Ch. 9). Combining the chapters makes the content more manageable and students will learn how to use clothing, accessories, cosmetics, and their voice to make favorable impressions.
  • An updated Instructor’s Manual will include exam questions and new class exercises to help professors teach and test more effectively in the classroom.
  • This new edition will include a PowerPoint Presentation that professors can download and use as a backdrop while they lecture.
  • While much of the basic content of the Leathers book is still applicable, most of the examples and photos have either been updated or refreshed. Illustrations using current politicians, athletes and celebrities enable students to see how nonverbal communication works on a level they can understand.  
  • The updated information on communicating nonverbally in a foreign culture (Ch. 16) includes new sections on chronemics (time) and olfactics (odor).
  • Professors will appreciate that the text, which previously included 19 chapters and one appendix,has been reorganized into 15 chapters, making it easier to get through within one semester.

1.  The Nature of Nonverbal Communication

 

2.  Facial Expressions

 

3.  Eye Behaviors

 

4.  Bodily Communication

 

5.  Proxemic Communication

 

6.  Tactile Communication

 

7.  Personal Appearance

 

8.  Vocalic Communication

 

9.  Impression Management

 

10.  Selling Yourself Nonverbally: Politics and Sales

 

11.  Detecting Deception

 

12.  Nonverbal Determinants of Successful Interviews

 

13.  Female-Male Interaction

 

15. Special Nonverbal Contexts

 

Index

    Successful Nonverbal Communication: Principles and Applications continues to demonstrate how knowledge of nonverbal messages can affect how one communicates successfully in the real world. This timely revision describes nonverbal cues, illustrates the desirable and nondesirable functions of these cues, and provides original tests for measuring and developing nonverbal communication skills.

    The third edition of Successful Nonverbal Communication: Principles and Applications has been updated to include the latest nonverbal communication research. This nonverbal scholarship includes: “Tactile Communication,” “Personal Appearance and Self-Concept,” “Selling Yourself Nonverbally,” “Intercultural Communication,” “Physician-Patient Interaction,” and “Courtroom Interaction.” This cutting-edge scholarship highlights this extensive rewrite.

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    Leathers
    © 1997 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 436 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205262309 | ISBN-13: 9780205262304
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