THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ABILITY TO PERCEIVE NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION CUES, FIELD-DEPENDENCE - INDEPENDENCE, AND INTELLIGENCE.
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Title
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ABILITY TO PERCEIVE NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION CUES, FIELD-DEPENDENCE - INDEPENDENCE, AND INTELLIGENCE.
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Identifier
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AAI8212182
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identifier
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8212182
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Creator
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ABRAMS-GOIDEL, MAXINE.
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Contributor
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Bernard Seidenberg
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Date
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1982
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical
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Abstract
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This study investigated individual differences in the ability to perceive emotion from nonverbal communication cues and the possible correlation between that and field-dependence-independence and intelligence. A sample of 121 college students (81 women, 40 men) was tested, first in group and then later in individual sessions. In the group sessions, five cognitive tests from the Kit of Factor-Referenced Cognitive Tests were administered including the Extended Range Vocabulary Test, Visual Number Span Test, Inference Test, Card Rotation Test, and Paper Folding Test, to obtain measures of verbal comprehension, memory span, logical reasoning, spatial orientation, and visualization. During the individual sessions, subjects were tested with a portable Rod-and-Frame Test to assess their degree of field independence, and given the Nonverbal Communication Perception (NVCP) Task, an improved method of assessing nonverbal communication decoding skills developed by the experimenter. The major findings were: (a) females were found superior to males in nonverbal communication decoding ability; sex differences in decoding skill remained after sex differences in cognitive skills were accounted for, (b) while field independents also were superior in nonverbal communication perception to field dependents, this was found due to differences in intelligence, (c) gender differences were found in level of performance with a trend toward sex differences in the relationship between variables as well; females excelled in total nonverbal and positive nonverbal communication perception scores and males in the portable Rod-and-Frame Test and in spatial orientation performance; (d) there was little evidence in the current study that the cognitive abilities that help field independents to perform well on nonverbal communication decoding tasks are different than those that help field dependents to do well, and (e) evidence suggests that females employ an analytic strategy for decoding nonverbal communication and that for them nonverbal communication perception, cognitive style, and the intellectual skills of logical reasoning, visualization, and spatial orientation are part of the same factor; findings for males were less conclusive because of the smaller sample size.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
