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Women and Nonverbal Leadership Cues: When Seeing Is Not Believing

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Gender and Nonverbal Behavior

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Research on gender and nonverbal behavior has often focused on sex differences in using nonverbal cues. A conclusion one might draw is that if women would simply adopt the culturally recognized male patterns, they would reap the same rewards. But would they? In this chapter we look at men and women presenting the same nonverbal authority signal, and examine its power to confer leadership status on the two sexes equally.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, USA

    Clara Mayo Ph.D.

  2. Department of Psychology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 90024, USA

    Nancy M. Henley Ph.D.

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Porter, N., Geis, F. (1981). Women and Nonverbal Leadership Cues: When Seeing Is Not Believing. In: Mayo, C., Henley, N.M. (eds) Gender and Nonverbal Behavior. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5953-4_3

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