A Nonverbal Signal in Voices of Interview Partners Effectively Predicts Communication Accommodation and Social Status Perceptions

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1231-1240

  Gregory Jr , Stanford W ^a   Webster, Stephen ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH;

DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 0030160642     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.70.6.1231     Document Type: Article

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