5th Edition
Successful Nonverbal Communication Principles and Applications
Successful Nonverbal Communication: Principles and Applications demonstrates how knowledge of nonverbal messages can affect successful communication in the real world. Now with fifteen chapters, the fifth edition draws students in through applications of the latest nonverbal communication research and through current examples of celebrities, sports, and politicians. This extensive revision describes nonverbal cues and their desirable and undesirable functions while offering original tests for measuring and developing nonverbal communication skills. Updates include new attention to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama, and discussion of nonverbal communication within same-sex partnerships.
Table of Contents
Part One-Nonverbal Communication
- The nature of Nonverbal Communication
- Facial Expressions
- Eye Behaviours
- Bodily Communication
- Proxemic Communications
- Tactile Communication
- Personal Appearance
- Vocalic Communication
- Impression Management
- Selling Yourself Nonverbally: Politics and Sales
- Detecting Deception
- Nonverbal Determinants of Successful Interviews
- Gender and Interaction
- Successful Intercultural Communication
- Special Nonverbal Contexts
Part Two-Developing the Successful Communicator
Part Three-Successful Communication in Applied Settings
Biography
Michael H. Eaves is a full professor of Communication Arts at Valdosta State University, and has been a professor there since 1993. Eaves has been the director of speech and debate at Valdosta State University since beginning there in 1993, and is a member of the National Communication Association.
Dale Leathers (1938–1997) was the sole author of editions one, two, and three of Successful Nonverbal Communication. He was a professor of speech communication at the University of Georgia as well as a former president of the National Communication Association and the Southern States Communication Association.
"Once again Eaves has produced a volume that advances our understanding of the nonverbal code of communication. In the spirit of previous editions, this edition provides readers with a theoretically-sound and well-developed approach to nonverbal communication. "
-Don W. Stacks, University of Miami, USA
"Michael Eaves has written a must read primer for the understanding of interpersonal communication with contemporary examples and a global perspective…this book was a breath of fresh air."
-Tomeka M. Robinson, Hofstra University, USA
Author Michael Eaves does an excellent job in his book conveying the concepts of nonverbal communication to a modern audience. Eaves uses up-to-date and relevant examples to help illustrate concepts to the reader. This book is a must read for the nonverbal student and scholar.
-Gina Jensen, Webster University, USA
