The Relative Strength of Verbal versus Nonverbal Cues
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 4 (1) , 147-150
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616727800400132
Abstract
A caveat is issued regarding simplistic comparisons of the potency of verbal versus nonverbal cues. To illustrate the danger, data are reported from a study in which high school students judged the meaning communicated by various face-sentence pairings. Judgments were shown to be highly dependent on the nature of the questions asked.Keywords
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