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Social Intelligence and Nonverbal Communication

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Overview

  • Provides in depth analysis of the latest research on the social psychology of nonverbal communication

  • Puts forward a novel theory on nonverbal social intelligence as an adaptive strategy for survival and success

  • Explores topics ranging from social skills and emotion to the newly growing human robot interface

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

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About this book

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in the social psychology of nonverbal communication. It explores topics including social skill, empathy, adaptive advantage, emotion-reading and emotion-hiding; and examines personal charisma, memory and communicating with robots. Together, the authors present diverse, cutting-edge research on nonverbal social intelligence as an adaptive strategy for survival and success. The collection provides an effective demonstration of the interdisciplinary nature of this topic, and it’s relevance to researchers across the social sciences and beyond. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    Robert J. Sternberg

  • Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, The University of Niš, Niš, Serbia

    Aleksandra Kostić

About the editors

Robert J. Sternberg is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University, USA and Honorary Professor of Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Germany. He has won the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology and the William James and James McKeen Cattell Awards from the APS.


Aleksandra Kostić is Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University of Niš, Serbia. Her research interests include nonverbal communication, emotional experience, time perspective, ethnic identity, and similarities and differences between cultures in perception of category, intensity and antecedents of emotion.



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