Prediction of students' evaluations from brief instances of professors' nonverbal behavior in defined instructional situations

Social Psychology of Education

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-33

  Babad, Elisha ^a   Avni Babad, Dinah ^a   Rosenthal, Robert ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 3843087264     PISSN: 13812890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:SPOE.0000010672.97522.c5     Document Type: Article

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