Thesis (Ph.D)--Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. / Committee Chair: Walker, Bruce; Committee Member: Bonebright, Terri; Committee Member: Catrambone, Richard; Committee Member: Corso, Gregory; Committee Member: Rogers, Wendy. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

Thesis (M.S.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2010. / Thesis advisor: Christopher Pudlinski. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Communication." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 36-40). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toledo, 2006. / Typescript. "A thesis [submitted] as partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Arts degree in English." Bibliography: leaves 39-40.

Thesis (M.A.)--Regis University, Denver, Colo., 2006. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Sept. 26, 2006). "Language and Communication"--T.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

The present study investigated the expressive and interpersonal functioning of nonverbal behavior within a dyadic relationship. A questionnaire derived from the Interpersonal Perception Method of Laing, Phillipson, and Lee (1966) was developed to assess the impact of an interviewer’s nonverbal behavior on the interviewee’s experience of herself, the interviewer, and their relationship. To determine this impact and evaluate the usefulness of the instrument, two interviewer nonverbal behavior sets were defined. Two female interviewers interviewed a total of sixteen female interviewees for each behavior set, using the same verbal style and interview format throughout each one-time interview. The interviewees then filled out the questionnaire which consisted of 160 statements constructed from five categories of issues and four relational phases. The interviewees endorsed each statement along and evaluative, true-false continuum. The interviewees’ responses to the items were grouped according to phase, category, and behavioral set.

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The present study investigates the questions of how children, aged 5 to 12, develop nonverbal communication skills. It was expected that cognitive role-taking ability would be positively related to both nonverbal encoding and decoding skills, after statistically removing the effects of age. The results of the study supported the hypothesized relationships for females only. There were no significant relationships between role-taking ability and nonverbal communication skills for the male sample of subjects

Italian masculine identity is examined by looking at the following influences: history and structure of Italian society, the public places used for the performance and the culture surrounding the display of masculinity. This research uses an approach similar to an ethnography of communication. Initial data and ideas were gathered through observational fieldwork and interviews that took take place in Italy during July 2006 and July 2007. A methods section describes interviews that later took place with Americans in order to compare and contrast responses with ones previously collected from Italians. The data gathered from these interviews will be used to highlight and substantiate the components of cultural identity that are unique to Italian masculinity. In analyzing the research data, the social meaning model is applied to elaborate a culturally shared set of meanings for a particular nonverbal act in an Italian piazza. Finally, findings are organized using four aspects of cultural identity to understand an Italian definition of masculinity. Two contributions emerged from the research: cultural sense making and cultural change. Cultural sense making provides a context for Italian masculine behavior, and cultural change describes the transformation of Italian ideology between the generations in regards to gender roles.