Nonverbal Auditory Cues Allow Relationship Quality to be Inferred During Conversations.

The claim that nonverbal cues provide more information than the linguistic content of a conversational exchange (the Mehrabian Conjecture) has been widely cited and equally widely disputed, mainly on methodological grounds. Most studies that have tested the Conjecture have used individual words or s...

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Publicado en:Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 1 - 19
Autores principales: Dunbar, R. I. M., Robledo, Juan-Pablo, Tamarit, Ignacio, Cross, Ian, Smith, Emma
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Publicado: Springer Nature Mar2022
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