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A Comprehensive Guide to Studying and Interpreting Communication Interaction This practical book provides students and experienced researchers with tools for studying communication behaviors through direct observation. The sourcebook provides sound coverage of both cutting-edge and well-established systems, measurements, and procedures, as well as detailed information on measurement selection, coding, reliability assessment, and analysis. In addition to offering theoretical discussions from leading researchers in the field, each chapter also focuses on how to apply systems and principles in conducting actual original research and uses examples and exemplars to help readers understand and apply the methods.
Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue An Inductive Approach
Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue An Inductive Approach
Microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue (MFD) began in the 1980s with a project on the curious phenomenon of motor mimicry, in which an observer responds in a way that would be appropriate to the situation of the person he or she is observing; for example, wincing when someone else is injured. Since Adam Smith (1759/2002, p. 12) described an example of motor mimicry, it had remained “a riddle in social psychology” (Allport, 1968, p. 30). Most theorists treated motor mimicry as an involuntary empathic reflex. However, in the course of 17 pilot studies aimed at capturing motor mimicry on video (Bavelas, Black, Lemery, MacInnis, & Mullett, 1986), we ...
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