Product Overview
New Version of The Nonverbal Self: Communication for aLifetime Now Available Through Kendall Hunt Publishing!
Written in a voice that speaks to where students live and translates fascinating, wide-ranging research into practical terms that resonate with students, Nonverbal Communication for a Lifetime fuses a unique balance of theory and application.
Nonverbal Communication for a Lifetime (formerly published by Pearson and known as The Nonverbal Self: Communication for a Lifetime (978-0-2054-7481-3), translates academic material based on sound research and theory into meaningful applications for the reader to utilize throughout life.
Nonverbal Communication for a Lifetime by Diana Ivy and Shawn Wahl:
- Introduces the Reflexive Cycle of Nonverbal Communication Development Model. This model of five phases that continue over a lifetime was developed from discussions about how people come to learn nonverbal behavior, modify their behavior as they grow and mature, perceive others' nonverbal cues, impact others through their own nonverbal communication, and finally how those behaviors are altered or reinforced as a result of this ongoing process.
- Challenges the reader to assess and then change their own nonverbal communication, then to focus on improving their observational and interpretive abilities as they interact with others.
- Is practical! The publication examines 4 critical contexts that affect students' everyday lives: nonverbal communication & technology, professional contexts, educational contexts, and relationships.
- Extends learning activities by including What Would You Do vignettes. These features provide a challenge or dilemma involving nonverbal communication, then pose a question to the reader as to how he/she would handle the situation
- Features Out of the Classroom, Onto the Page vignettes that include snippets of discussions from other college students in response to textbook and classroom information.
- Is student friendly - featuring chapter outlines, chapter objectives, opening case studies and summaries
- Is instructor friendly - providing an instructors manual with chapter outlines, class notes, quizzes, discussion questions, and more.
