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This book is an up-to-date compendium of knowledge on the secret language of close relationships, namely nonverbal routes of communication. In close relationships, as everyone learns sooner or later, the usefulness of words can be somewhat limited, because people (a) mean different things by the same words, (b) mean the same thing by different words, (c) sometimes find it hard to express their feelings in words, and (d) lie. Nonverbal signals therefore often provide the best means of communication. The book points out how decoding (interpreting) nonverbal signals is a major key to success, because often what people say wholly belies how they feel-nonverbal signals reveal their true feelings rather than what they want other people to think their feelings are. This book helps decode those secret signals. The book is written by the leading worldwide experts in the field of nonverbal communication to ensure accuracy, comprehensiveness, and timeliness.
List of contents
1. Interpersonal Oculesics: Eye-Related Signals of Attraction, Interest, and Connection.- 2. Communication and Communal Emotions in the Learning of Love.- 3. The Role of Nonverbal Communication in Leadership Skills.- 4. The Look of Love: Evolution and Nonverbal Signs and Signals of Attraction.- 5. Love Signals and the Reproductive Force.- 6. The Verbal and Nonverbal Communication of Romantic Interest.- 7. Misunderstood Non-verbal Cues in Close Relationships: Contributions of Research Over Opinions.- 8. What Words Don't Tell Us: Non-verbal Communication and Turmoil in Romantic Relationships.- 9. Negative Emotions, Facial Clues, and Close Relationships: Facing the End?.- 10. Love in the Time of COVID-19: What We Can Learn About Non-verbal Behaviour from Living with a Pandemic.- 11. Non-verbal communication: From good endings to better beginnings.- 12. The Functions and Consequences of Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships.- 13. Nonverbal Skills in Relationships: Too Little or TooMuch May Be a Bad Thing.- 14. Non-verbal Communication in Relationships as a Link between Affect and Social Intelligence.
About the author
Robert J. Sternberg is Professor of Psychology at Cornell University and Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is past president of the American Psychological Association and the Federation of Associations in Brain and Behavioral Sciences. His PhD is from Stanford University. He holds 13 honorary doctorates.
Aleksandra Kosti¿ is Retired Professor of Social Psychology (University of Niš, Serbia). She taught courses on social perception, nonverbal behavior, and psychology of interpersonal behavior. Her research interests include examining the accuracy in perception of nonverbal clues; social, emotional, and perceptual judgments, especially the judgments of primary emotions from the face; emotional intensity; and antecedent events and reaction to emotion.
