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Reprinted from JounaL oF Anwonseit. axo Soctar Paxewotocr, Vol. 68, No. 3, Mar. 1964
BODY POSITION, FACIAL EXPRESSION, AND VERBAL
BEHAVIOR DURING INTERVIEWS '*
PAUL EKMAN*
School of Medicine, Univerity of California, San Fraxcico
‘The communicative value of body postion and facial expresion was evaluated
ty woeaturing an O's ablty to detect 4 relatonship between nonverbal and
‘verbal ‘ebavior which bad been simultaneously enitied. The verbal and
owverbal smal were collected during ? diferent standardized sires lter~
‘ews, Judges (Js) were shown pairs of photographs together with short
‘written speech samples snd eequied on each tril to pick the photograph which
Iatched the verbal behavior. In 4 separate experiments with diferent sroups
of Js accurate judgments were obtained. Evidence for a teatonship between
oaverbal and verbal behavior simultaneously emitted was replated acrow
P'difeent samples of interview bebavior and wnder 3 cue condilons—seeag
the head, body, oF whole person,
‘There has been relatively litle systematic
lnvestigation of the information which may be
transmitted. through spon:aneous nonverbal
behavior shown during, interpersonal trans.
action. Research on body movement and
facial expression has had to deal with a
Phenomenon which is continuously occurring,
has no readily apparent unit of measurement
‘or method of evaluation, and is both dificult
‘and expensive to record. Despite the clinical
conviction that nonverbal behavior provides
important dues about an individual's emo-
tional experience, such beliefs rest on litle
‘more than anecdotal evidence or speculation.
In fact, research on interview bebavior ‘has
increasingly focused on verbal rather than
nonverbal interactions.
‘The major problem in exploration of the
‘nonverbal aspects of interview behavior, may
at least intially appear to be the acquisition
of permanent record. Actually, unless the
‘body movements and facial expressions are
obviously meaningfal from simple inspection,
the investigator is quickly overwhelmed with
4 mass of photographic stimull, which are
just as balling and complex as were the
‘original behaviors themselves. The central dif
This project was supported by a. postdoctoral
research fellowship, MP" 6092, from the National
Insitute of ‘Mental Health, United States Publle
Health Service. The author is indebted to Sanford
‘Autuma for his maay valuable suggestions about
‘he Fecha Steal amy, and prepa
Now at San Frandco State College,
ficulty in research on spontancous nonverbal
behavior is the development of fruitful tech
riques for evaluating the information which
may be contained in records of nonverbal
behavior. Two approaches can be_distin-
‘gushed which although related, usually have
been separately pursued.
“The first approach has measured variations
in nonverbal behavior as a response to some
other factor, such as interview structure ot
Patient mood. Sainesbury (1955) and Ditt-
mann (1962), for example, have reported 4
‘between changes in nonverbal
behavior and the content oF structure of an
interview. They did not study the related
question, owever, of what may be com-
‘municated to an observer by these changes
in nonverbal behavior.
In the second research approach, nonverbal
Dehavior is presented as a communicative
stimulus and an observer's response to that
stimulus is measured. Most of the experi-
rents using this second approach have been
Performed with posed behavior which oc-
curred during isolation rather than in the
midst of an interpersonal interaction (for
example, Schlosberg, 1954). Moreover, these
studies have focused upon judge agreement
rather than accuracy in understanding com-
‘munication through nonverbal behavior. At
tempts to measure the information trans-
nitted through nonverbal behavior during an
Interview ave been inconsistent. in their
methods and results (Giedt, 1955; Mab,
Danet, & Norton, 1959). These experiments
2s296 avn Exnan
have not allowed specification of the actual
nonverbal cues which served as the basis for
the judgments required, A further criticism
of the research studying nonverbal behavior
as a communicative stimulus, is that it has
relied on the application of ‘highly complex
verbal concepts for evaluating the information
transmitted by the nonverbal cues. A judg-
‘ment task which requires ratings on emotional
scales, diagnostic or psychodynamic formula-
tions, may well miss much of the information
‘which nonverbal bebavior can communicate
to an observer.
The present series of experiments combined
features of both research approaches by meas-
turing an observer's response to nonverbal
behavior (Approach 2), in a task which re-
quired him to relate nonverbal behavior to
another aspect of the interview situation (Ap-
proach 1). A relationship between what a
person does with his body and what he is
saying was assumed, and a matching pro-
cedure was borrowed from the early research
on expressive behavior (Vernon, 1936; Wolf,
1943) to test the following hypothesis: Judges
can detect a relationship between nonverbal
and verbal behavior which was simultaneously
emitted during an interview,
Four separate experiments with different
‘groups of judges will be reported. In each of
these experiments judges responded to verbal
and nonverbal stimuli which had been
gathered during the course of two interviews.
Genera Meron
Interview Procedure
‘A standard rather than lineal interview was
cplayed to increase the comparabllty of the two
Interviews and to insure the presence of diferent
‘fective reactions, The interview structure was
‘achieved by programing both the syle and content
of the interviewer's (the experimenter) behavior
foward the interviewee (the subject). After an
Introductory affectivly soutal peeled of 10 minutes,
the experinenter sttscked and crtced the wbject
oie of vccupation, competency, and motivation.
Throughout this sess phase, the experimenter
continually questioned and) iterupted ‘the subject,
responding tangentally to Mis reps, and generally
ving litle opportunisy for any delene, After 19
uch aioues the experimenter iidated the extharls
phase by apologizing for being hose, episining i
‘had been seeesary in order to study the subject's
feacdon to stress, The subject was praised for Bip
reslleney and performance onder sre, and humor
‘minutes of catharsis, the experimenter was reat
Soring in manner and attempted to bring about a
teleae of tension.
Interview Participants
Two such standardized interviews were recorded,
with completely diferent paricipanta in each of the
Interviews All four. interview participants were
from the Seid of pavcbology. The too ferent
aperimenters were sal! research pevchologsts 38°
veteran's hospital, having a pestion of some
Authority over the two diferent trainees ‘ho served
fs subjects, All of the participants were told. that
‘he experiment was concerned wilh interviewing,
and tat thelr behavior would be tape recorded
‘and observed. The experimenters so” knew tat
they would be photographed and nonverbal be-
havior would be studied.
Recording Method
Photographs showing profile view of both the
experimenter and the subject vere Laken through
fpesway vison sereen with @SSumllimeter still
‘camera. The verbal behavior ‘war tape cecarded,
‘The verbal and nonverbal records were synchronised
bya switching “device mounted on the camera
Which ‘paced an audible signal over the tape
fecorded voices whenever a peture wa taken
‘The frequency of photographic mp
avery 30 seconds in Interview A and
frery 18 seconds ia Interview By was dictated. by
Tinitaions in the fm capacity of the camera.
Selection of Verbal and Nonverbal Stimulé
‘The judgment task involved presenting 2
wetten Speech samples {fom the Interview along
swith pairs of photographs. On each trial the judge
svar required fo pick om pair of pictues the
tne ‘which best Sted or matched ‘the verbal
Behavior
‘The universe of verbal behavior hich could
be sampled for presentation ‘ine Judging task
wes delimited by’ the number of occasion’ during
the interview in which a photograph nad. been
taben, There were 26 such polats during Interview A
and 71 point daring Tateview B. Speech sampler
Of from 30" to 60 seconds tere choren from this
pool of verbal behavior they” appeared intel~
pile sehen lifted from the contest of the total
onversauion, ‘There wat 30. inspection af the
Photographs during thie selection procedute, An
Idee card. was prepared for each speech sample
‘whlch stated whether the verbal Interecion had been
taken from the tres or catbarse.phave of che
Interview; provided a onrsentence background
synopsis; coataned the speech sample of one ov mo
‘atements by both the experimenter andthe sub:
Jeet rich the aetsl moment which tad been photor
Srapied indlated by a ccled word
Pais of potographs, correct and incorret, were
shen laced to) steompuny each speech sample
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‘The correct photographs were the oves which
aetialy had Sena taken dunog the speech samples
correct photographs were randomly. selected (0m,
"photograph pool delinited by two factors: Toe
‘mouth poston, open or closed, had to be the same
1 both the incorrect and correct photographs, and
I the experimenter (or the subject) were speaking
Jwben the correct photograph was taken, then the
Jncoreeet photograph had to be Selected from photo-
‘apis. allo taken while the experimenter (or the
‘abjecr) was speaking
‘Two types of incorrect photographs could be
chosen for pairing with each coreet one. The ise
correct photograph could be taken from the same
phase of the interview as the correct plctre, oF
{aken from the other phase. Since speech samples
ad bean selected (om bath the strest and catharsis
phases of the interview, there were Tour types of
‘orrectincorrect. photograph pairs which could be
Dresented to the judges With a verbal sample om
the ses phase of the interview, the juages could
be required to. choose Betveen two. sree. pboto-
araphs of beewean sess and 2 catharsis ai.
Stmiany, with a verb sample from the catharas
phase of the interview, the judges could be presented
With either ewe catharsis photographs of with 8
(Stharsis and 2 etree photograph
Experiment I
‘The problem was to determine if any telation-
ship between verbal and noaverbal behavior simul:
{ancously eated is communicated to an observer.
Hypothesis: untrained. judger can choove {rom 2
pair of photographs the one which wat taken during
2 even speech sample
Subject. Eighteen college freshman, consisting of
the entire introductory pryehology css taught by
the author, served as judges. There were 10 males,
S'lemaies, the median age was
‘Method. Fourteen speech samples and accompany
ing correc-incorect photograps were selected from
Interview B by the iethod described above, Eight
of these speech samples were from the stress phase
of the interview; st, from the eatharis pase
Four % ve inch enlargements were made of exch
photography showing a protle view of both the
fperimenter and the subject. The Judgment ‘ace
‘was individealy adminitered In ofder to. alow
‘random variation af the order of peseatig the
‘peechphotograph items. "The judge was shown
Dire of photographs, each of which came tom the
aime Interview phase on ball ihe lems hile oF
fe remaining tals the incorrectcorect photoreaph
alr wece drawn fom diferent interview poaces
‘Able of random numbers was sied to determine
‘woether for a particular judge the colee on 2 ba
Heclar speech would be between, photograph pai
‘om ihe sare oF diferent interview phaser
Prior t the task, the udee sas given the
folowing instructions to ret
‘Tis is a ses of your sil im imerpretng and
understanding gestures snd Sody moverests ou
vil be showa some photographs which were taken
every 15 seconds during’ a thirty minute Inter
View. The interviewer, or Examiner, was 2 sail
Dpevehologst at a hospital, and the person inter~
“lowed, the Subject, as 4 student Ia taling to
become a psyehologist The Subject was told that
‘be was paricpatng ina research project on inter-
Viewing techniques, and that he’ would be ob
Served through a oneeway vision sereen and tape
fecorded. The interview was prearranged £0" the
Examiper to ask facial questions during. the
Inwoductory’ Sst 10 misutes, and then to bee
ome hostle and chaleging, questioning. the
Subject's academic training, the adequacy of bis
reparation to take his examiaations coming up
{he folowing month, and to eoatnually Interrupt
‘him. This Stressful period lasted about 10 minutes
In the Final phase of the interview the Examiner
fplained what he had been doing; that it had
been part of the research to try and provoke the
Subject, and generally attemplad to reassure the
Subject. Ta actuality, this Interview plan did aot
work out perfectly. ‘There was aot clearly de-
Sed a diference tetveen the three phases of the
Interview a had been expected. ‘There was some
sires for the Subject throughout ‘he Interview
‘The final phase was not completely successful ia
producing some relef from the sess since the
Subject “knew that the experiment wat sl
‘continuing, and perhaps was apprehensive about
‘what might’ be Coming nest, Neverbeles, there
ere some important diferences between tie
Yarious phases of the interview. The stress phase
Aid ‘have more overt expression of hostlty” and
tension; and in the Gal phase the Subject it
fxpeieace some ‘ele, at least knowing that the
worst was over. You will be given to Tead 1
ckeps from the tapereconded conversatioe,
‘The verbal excerpts cach took less than minute of
interview time. One photograph wa taken nuting
ach of the veal exerpis, and le actual “rds
Spoken waen the photograpa was taken are ci ed
in red, ‘After you read carb varbal excerpt,
‘sil be showa's pale of puotegraphs, and. your
job as a jodge wall be to pick which of the two
Diceares in ihe pair Gis we bese oF matches the
Serbal excerpt. ‘Tall of the. photorrspte. she
Examiner appears on the let aod the sect 30
he Tight, ‘Your lark then is tu ‘uterine for
ach tet of two photorrapia which ose is mest
‘ikey "te" have Been taken during ‘the veroal
Results. The number of curtect of ace
curate choives for each jude wa9 tabulated,
sition of obidive arcimacy scores
‘was evaivisted by comparicon with @ theorst
feal_melian representine ike score
night Ee expected if only shance factore were
chit nan simply298 Paut EKMAN
TABLE
Inteview A (6 eral
‘Sained median
Sabre cepted maton tS |
Tnteviow B (14 tials)
‘Gioines mean
Gestion "spect median of 7
Interviews A and B combined (20 vials)
“Ohained median
Sp Shave expected median of 10
ee
flected chance factors, then there would have
been an equal probability of either photo-
raph being selected on each trial. The ex-
pected median was therefore equal to a cor-
rect choice on half of the trials. Significance
fests were derived by applying Wilcoxon's
matched-pair ranks test (Siegel, 1956, p. 75)
to the difference between the obtained scores
and the expected median.
It can be seen in Table 1 that the obtained
median accuracy score was significantly better
than might be expected by chance. Table 1
also shows that more than three-fourths of
the judges scored above the expected median.
Experiment IT
Problem. The purpose of this experiment sas to
replicate the findings reported above with a diferent
‘roup of judges and to extend the generally of the
Fults by" tiling. verbal and. nonverbal” stimuli
‘drawn from an additonal interview. A. secod
Durpose was to determine if it were sl posible to
Fateh verbal and_soaverbal. behavior with more
restricted. nonverbal eve formation. Tn. splot
Study (Ekman, 1961) aa attempt was made 10
Specly the nonverbal cues required Tor the judge
‘ment task by Uiitng the judges to seeing either
bead or body. The results indented lite ierence
Im accuracy Ifthe judge saw head of whole person
cues, Bat accuracy ‘was ‘much lower ‘with. phato-
‘raphe showing only. bod)” posidoa, Hypothes
Sudges can choose from a pair of photographs the
tne which was taken during a siven speech sample
(when responding to pictures of the whole person.
This diserimination between photograph pai is
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Showing only body postion
‘Subject Since the plot needy had suggested that
working with body posidon photoseaphs vas a
Scale task, an attempt was made to select as
Judges individuals who might be able to best under~
Stand. this typeof nonverbal behavior. Sixteen
Drofesioaal modern dancers verved as judges: 1d
fwere female, the median age tas 25, the median
tduestlon sas 16 years
Method. ‘The same task was employed. but the
procedure was modifed for group presentation
{ther than individual administration. A Booklet was
Prepared. which contained an iastuction shee,
Silla to the one used in the Srst experiment, and
20 speech samples. Fourteen of these were the
Samples used in the Gist experiment, the other 6
speech. samples were drawn com "Interview |
Toeve of the 20 samples were (com the stress
phases of the interviews, the remalning & samples
‘were drawn from the catharsis phases. Half of the
forrect-incorreet photograph pairs were compoved
of pictures taken during the Same interview phase,
the remaining 10 pairs of photographs consisted of
ictures from diferent Interview phases. The poto-
fraphs were mice into two sats of postive trane-
fareaces The beads of both the experimenter std
the subject were covered with opacue ii in. one
Set of transparencies, s0 that only the body postion
foul be seen
‘Two projecion screens and two 3s-millimeter
side" projectors were used 10 show the comect-
Incorrect” photograph pais simutaneousiy tothe
sroup of judges alter they rexd each af the spewed
Samples in the booklet. The judges Ast completed
‘the 20 tials ceponding to photographs of body
posidon, and then after 20-minute intervening
{ask repeated. the procedure sith photographs
showing the srbole person, ‘The appearance 91 che
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correct photograph on either the lft of ight pré-
jection fereen dred under tbe body and whole
person cue conditions and was balanced across the
iota,
Results, The technique of data analysis was
the same as described in the first experiment.
‘The results on Interview A trials and Inter-
view B trials in this experiment and in Ex-
periments III and IV will be interpreted
together in the discussion section of this
paper. The results in Table 1 show that ac-
‘curacy on all 20 trials (Interviews A and B
combined) replicated the findings of the first
experiment. The judges were able to pick the
photograph which matched a verbal sample
‘when limited to seeing body position and
also when shown the whole person, While it
appears that the level of accuracy was greater
when the whole person was seen, the differ-
ence between the two cue conditions was not
tested since there had been no control for
practice effects.
Experiment III
Problem. In interpreting the results from Experi-
meat Ife was not car whether the judge? ability
to match “Body. only" photographs with speech
Simpler was due to any special characteristics Which
‘might be associated wilh dancers or if such ac-
forecy might be found in a more unselected. group
of judges, The major purpose of this experiment
‘ras then, to determine if @ heterogeneous group of
Judges could match body position photographs with
Speech samples. A secondary purpose was to replete
the findings of the two earler experiments. Hy=
pothesis: A heterogeoeous group of judges can choose
from a pair of photographs, showing only the
body postion, the one which’ was taken uring &
ven Speech sample
Subject, Fifteen undergraduate stndents in the
authors introductory paychology evening "cas
served as judges. Twelve were males; the median
ge was 22.5 witha range from 18 to 5S.
‘Method. Exaclly the sime procedure described in
Experiment IT was followed, Twenty speech samples
were presented in booklet form. The Judges rst
fesponded to body posidon photographs, and. then
‘o pictures showing the whole person
Results. The techniques of data analysis
I shows that for the results of all 20 trials,
the hypothesis was confirmed and the easlier
findings were replicated. No comparison was
made between the accuracy achieved by the
dancers in Experiment IT and this group of
evening psychology students, since the two
groups of judges differed in age, education,
and sex distribution as well as in thelr choice
of vocation
Experiment IV
Problem. Tae design io Experiments I and IIL
id not permit study of relative accuracy in match
ing nonverbal and verbal bebavior as 3 function of
the nonverbal cue information availble. The
Durpore of this experiment was 10 test impresions
from the plot Suady televed to earler by com-
paring accuracy between groups of judges who we
Inlted to seeing ether bead oF body position con
verbal cuss. Hypothesis: Judges can choose from
4D pair of photographs te one which was taken
uring 4 given speech sample when responding to
father heat) or “Body postion cues, The judges
Showa bead cues will acleve greater accuracy 1Ban
the group of judges seing body poston cues
‘abject Female students in two freshman psy-
chology clases served. ax judges ‘There were 27
Judges in the group seeng body position photo-
sraphs, 29 judges in the group responding to bead
Photographs. The median age in both groups was 1S
‘Method. ‘The general procedure ascribed ia Ex.
periments If and IIT was followed exeepe that to
Separate groups served. as Judes, each coup
Fespoading’ to oly one cue condition, either nex
or body,
Results, The technique of data analysis
described earlier was again used to evaluate
the results which are shown in Table 1. Con-
sidering the group which responded to head
cues, the results on all 20 trials combined gen-
erally conform to the findings reported earlier
for judgments of the whole person. The group
responding to body position cues, however,
did not achieve a significant level of ace
ccuracy in their scores on all 20 trials. Exar
nation of the results on Interviews A and B
separately revealed that while accurate judg-
ments were achieved on Interview B, the
judges were significantly (two-tailed ‘test)
below the chance level of expectation in their
responses to body position photographs from
Interview A. There was a tendency for body
photographs from Interview A to be similarly
misjudged in Experiment IZ, although it had
not reached statistical significance.
Differences in accuracy under the two cue
conditions were evaluated with a Mann-
Whitney U test. The group responding to
‘head cues achieved greater accuracy than the
body position judges in their performance on
all 20 trials (p <.05) and in their judgment
of photographs from Interview A (p< 001)300 Pave EKMAN
Drcussion,
Accuracy in matching materials from the
‘wo different interviews was related to the
type of cue information provided—head,
body, or sthole person cues. Although there
was some inconsistency across the four ex-
periments, by and large a significant level
of accuracy was achieved on both Interviews
A and B if either the whole person or the
head were shown, There were marked difer-
ences in the accuracy obtained on Interviews
A and B, however, when only the body
Positions were shown. The body cues in
Interview B seem to have provided suficient
information for matching in two out of three
experiments, Table 1 shows that such accu-
racy was never reached on body cue judg-
ments of Interview A. This difference in
accuracy sas evaluated with the MeNemar
test for the significance of change (Siegel,
1956, p. 63) by comparing the scores on the
two interviews for each cue condition in
Experiments TI, TI, and IV. Judgments on
Interview B trials were more accurate than
Interview A trials only under the body
cue condition (Experiment III, » <.02; Ex-
periment IV, p<.001). The results of
Experiment IV on differences between judg-
ments made on the basis of head or body
cues provide related information. Head
judgments were superior to body position
judgments for Interview A (p< .00i), while
42 tend in the reverse direction was seen for
judgments made of Interview B.
There are a number of hypotheses which
might explain why in one of the interviews
hhead but not body cues could be related to
verbal behavior. These explanations involve
differences in sending behavior, that is, the
‘extent to which people may differ in the
information which is conveyed to an observer
through their nonverbal behavior. The ex-
Perimenter and the subject in Interview A
may have been head rather than body
ders: or, they may have been sending
information’ in their bodies which was un-
related .or contradictory to the verbal be-
havior: of, the body cues while related to the
verbal behavior may bave either anticipated
ged behind it. The choice between
vpotheses will have to avait further
‘A communication paradigm involves con-
sideration aot only of sending behavior but
also of receiving behavior, that is, possible
differences across observers in theit skill or
sensitivity in understanding nonverbal be-
havior. While these experiments were not
Gesigned to study this question, one aspect
of receiving behavior can be analyzed by
determining whether accuracy in judging one
interview was related to accuracy in judging
the other. Spearman rank-order correlations
vwere calculated between accuracy in judging
Interview 4 and Interview B for the various
cue conditions in the last three experiments.
Of the six possible correlation coeficients,
only two were significant and these were both
in a negative direction, Thus, it would seem
that accuracy in matching verbal and non-
verbal behavior from one interview was In-
dependent of such accuracy in working with
materials from another interview. The more
‘general question of whether sensitivity as a
receiver is specific to the behavior of a par-
ticular sender, or group of senders, must also
await further research.
‘The overall results on the four experiments
suggest that some information related to the
verbal behavior is conveyed by spontaneous
nonverbal behavior during interviews. In at-
tempting to specify just what may be co
‘municated through body position and facial
expression, both specific and general classes
ff information can be outlined. The most
obvious example of specific aonverbel com-
munication would be a gesture such as a
smile ot fist shake which has a direct veroai
equivalent or translation, Even less symbolic
nonverbal acts such as swaying of the body
for tapping of the foot may have a specific
communicative value by emphasizing or
focusing attention on a particular part of a
verbal message. Although not studied in
these experiments, nonverbal acts, such as
movements towards or away from another
or direction of eye gaze, may not necessarily
bbe related to the verbal message, but instead
‘may communicate specific information in the
language of the relationship (Ekman, 1962)
In addition to these specific meanings, son-
verbal behavior may siso communicate more
general or gross information about the sende
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disckarge of tensioa,
In the present experiments, specific in-
formation must have been communicated by
the nonverbal behavior. The judges were not
simply responding to the gross. differences
between the behavior shown under stress and
catharsis, since they had been able to dis-
ccriminate between photograph pairs taken
from the same emotional phase of the inter-
view. This diserimination between two stress
‘or two catharsis pictures was as accurate as
the judgments made of pictures from different
interview phases,
Although the majority of the results ob-
tained were statistically significant, and the
distribution of scores was skewed towards
accuracy, the absolute level of correct choices
‘was far from perfect. There were a number
of factors which made this judgmental task
extremely difficult. If the nonverbal behavior
photographed had contradicted or was not
directly related to the verbal behavior, accu
racy would suffer. Similarly, if the nonverbal
behavior anticipated or lagged behind the
verbal behavior, the photograph could not
hhave been matched with the short speech
sample provided. Presenting the speech
sample asa typescript without any vocal
cues may have served to increase the am-
Diguity of the verbal behavior. Finally, the
use of still photographs rather than motion
pictures eliminated any cues from sequence
for movement patterns which are customarily
available to an observer.
Tn light of these limiting factors, it is
particularly impressive that consistent evi-
ddonco was found for at least a partiat relation-
ship between verbal and nonverbal behavior.
‘These experiments indicate that body position
and facial expression spontaneously. shown
during an interview are not random act
or noise, but have specific communicative
value related to the verbal behavior. Further
‘more, this relationship is not obscure or
available to only the privileged few, but can
be detected by untrained observers.
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