Effects of different types of hand gestures in persuasive speech on receivers' evaluations

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 239-266

  Maricchiolo, Fridanna ^a   Gnisci, Augusto ^b   Bonaiuto, Marino ^a   Ficca, Gianluca ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 59149083296     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960802159929     Document Type: Article

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