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UNINA9910786261603321 |
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Autore |
Beattie Geoffrey |
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Titolo |
Visible thought : the new psychology of body language / / Geoffrey Beattie |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-39595-7 |
0-203-50002-4 |
0-203-60135-1 |
1-280-07666-6 |
1-299-28522-8 |
1-134-39596-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Body language |
Gesture - Psychological aspects |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Visible Thought The New Psychology of Body Language; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Big Brother and other experiments; 2. Two separate languages?; 3. Where the action is; 4. `A remarkable biological miracle'; 5. Images in the hands, images in the mind; 6. Different vehicles of meaning; 7. Gestures and the frustrations of everyday life; 8. Speech is only half the story; 9. Who or what the hands portray; 10. A glimpse of the unguarded mind in action; 11. Some philosophical and practical implications; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Are you saying one thing whilst your hands reveal another? Are you influenced by other people's body language without even knowing it? Darting through examples found anywhere from the controlled psychology laboratory to modern advertising and the Big Brother TV phenomenon, official Big Brother psychologist Geoffrey Beattie takes on the issue of what our everyday gestures mean and how they affect our relationships with other people. For a long time psychologists have misunderstood body language as an emotional nonverbal side effect. In this book Geoffrey Beattie ranges across th |
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