Syllabus

Nonverbal Syllabus

Assignments

Nonverbal Group Assignment

 

Students have the option of doing the nonverbal group assignment OR the nonverbal paper assignment

 

Nonverbal Paper Assignment

Guide to Writing Good Papers

Student Sample Paper

 

Quality writing center

 

Nonverbal Abstract Assignment

 

Sample Abstract

 

How to Do Scholarly Research

 

Study Sheet

Items to study for exams

 

Nonverbal Videos to Watch for Class

Videos on nonverbal communication

Additional Required Readings

Chapter One: When Does Communication Occur?

 

Nacirema by Horace Miner

 

Beauty analysis (cut and paste website address into your search engine if  the link doesn't work)
 

http://www.beautyanalysis.com
 

BeautyAnalysis.com Study Questions

 

This is My World Now by Anna Mae Halgrin Seaver

 

 

Wears Jumpsuit, Sensible Shoes, Uses Husbands Last Name by Deborah Tannen

 

(If this redirects you to her website, type in "Marked Women Unmarked Men" into google and then go to the website with georgetown.edu and tannen in it)

 

Watch this video on Michelle Obama's Inaugural Dress

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6399787

 

 

Predictive Aspects of Nonverbal Courtship Behavior in Women. Monica Moore and Diana Butler

 

Questions and Answers About Sexual Harassment

Additional Videos Online

 

Milgrams Shock Experiment

The Power of the Situation

Milgram's Experiment on ABC News

(Highly recommended)

 

 

 

 

 

Class Notes and Handouts

Chapter One Notes: Communication Models

BeautyAnalysis.com Study Questions

Notes on Bicameral Brain (Studies w/ chapter 3)

 

According to education research, when students have copies of a teacher's Power Point notes they digest less of the material.  It seems that the act of writing notes enhances learning. For that reason, I do not give out my Power Points.  There are times, however,  when there are diagrams, charts, etc. that may be helpful, in those cases,  I send out the slides that contains this information. 

Top Nacermia Papers

2009

2008

Online Tests and Activities: For your enjoyment

Can you spot a fake smile? Take the test

Facial Perception Test: Is your ideal mate an introvert or extrovert?

Facial Expressions Test

Are you left or right brained? Which was is the dancer spinning?

Can you recognize emotions and gender quickly? Test

Are you a high or low self monitor?

Duchenne vs Social Smiles can you tell the difference?

By looking at pictures, can you match the couples?

Put these faces in order from least to most attractive

On a scale of one to ten, rate the faces for attractiveness

Rate faces according to their similarity

Guess personality characteristics by looking at faces

The Secret language of Babies-Oprah Winfrey

Do it to learn: Control the computerized facial expressions

Are you a Yankee or a Rebel-Accent test

Do you read me: Test your body language reading skills

 

Online Articles of Interest

Blind Relatives Prove Facial Expressions are Inherited-Scientific American

Facial Expressions of Emotion are Innate Not Learned- Science Daily

Bicameral Images reveal our two selves. Who would YOU vote for?

The nonverbal dictionary of gestures, signs, and body language cues

The Lucifer Effect --Pictures of Milgram's Shock Study, Stanford Prison Study,  and Prison Scandals

Interview with Paul Eckman: Face to Face the Science of Reading Face.  Watch the online broadcast 56 min. Information on the face begins at 20 minute mark

Better Life Media Clip: Terri Sjodin Live - Bodies Want To Gesture- Video excerpt from a seminar for those in sales 4 min

Do employees with piercings and tattoos have a right to violate company dress codes if they are for religious purposes? New Hampshire Business Review Article

Ekman, P. 1997. Lying and deception. In Memory for Everyday and Emotional Events, Stein, N.L., P.A. Ornstein, B. Tversky, and C. Brainerd, eds. Mahway, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Available at http://www.paulekman.com/pdfs/lying_and_deception.pdf.

Ekman, P. (1996) Why don’t we catch liars?
Social Research, 63, 801-817. Download PDF Version

Ekman, P. & O’Sullivan, M. Who can catch a liar.
American Psychologist, 1991, 46, 913-120.
Download PDF Version

Facial Expressions Ekman, P. (1999) Facial Expressions
In T. Dalgleish and T. Power (Eds.) The Handbook of Cognition and Emotion. Pp. 301-320. Sussex, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Download PDF Version

 

Books: My Favorite Books on Body Language

Wainwright, G.R. (2003). Teach yourself body language. Godder & Stoughton, Great Britain.

 

Fast, Julia (2003). Body Language.

 

Lewis, D. (1989). The secret language of success: Using body language to get what you want. Carroll & Graff: New York.