The Sourcebook of Nonverbal Measures, Going Beyond Words
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loginA few years ago, a bold graduate student in communication, Jack Sargent (now a faculty member and contributor to this book) asked me, and several other experienced researchers who study nonverbal behavior, to be part of a conference panel. At that time, Jack was interested in doing a study that used coding and rating techniques to measure nonverbal cues, and he could not find a current published source to help him. So he gathered us together in Denver, Colorado, and asked us a series of questions. It was useful for Jack but also for those of us on the panel—and hopefully for the audience as well. All of us realized that much of the work we had been doing involved creating and re-creating measures to assess the aspects of nonverbal behavior in which we were most interested. We all concurred that having a more cohesive discussion of research choices specifically for the investigation of nonverbal phenomena seemed important. That is the primary aim of this book.
