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	harras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Behaviour which may be acceptable or tolerant in one context may be sexual harassment in another and behaviour which may seem amusing or harmless to some may be offensive to others.
		Behaviour which denigrates, ridicules or is intimidatory of an individual or group because of their race, such as degrading or belittling verbal abuse or insults which are race-related; offensive jokes and offensive comments about appearance, dress or other cultural differences.
		Behaviour which may be acceptable or tolerant in one context may be racial harassment in another and behaviour which may seem harmless to some may be offensive to others.
	oldweb.northampton.ac.uk /pers/harras.htm (2722 words)

	A NOD IS AS GOOD AS A WINK... OR IS IT?
		In that, their results support the belief that non verbal behaviour (in their case gaze) is used to achieve mutual understanding (grounding).
		Verbal interaction is characterised and measured by the number of words used, dialogue length and back channels such as interruption, dialogue gaps and requisitioning.
		Non verbal behaviour in communication is characterised by information such as eye gaze, and kinesic information such as posture, bodily movement (hand gestures, fidgeting, nods etc..),and facial expressions, (winks, grins, smiles, frowns, etc..).
	www.psy.gla.ac.uk /~steve/crvid.html (3975 words)

	Verbal Behavior-Special Interest Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This SIG is dedicated to the study of "language" from a behavior analytic point of view.
		Behavior Analysts attempt to study humans and nonhumans as objectively as possible, thus the focus on observable behaviors, as well as antecedents and consequences of those behaviors.
		The term "verbal behavior" was coined by Skinner (1957)- see that text for an in-depth analysis of language from a behavioral perspective.
	psyc.csustan.edu /verbalbehavior (133 words)

	Language in India
		In contradiction, the verbal and nonverbal behaviours contradict one another as in the case of a verbal praise in a sarcastic tone.
		Linguistically oriented studies of nonverbal behaviour are indeed very few, and those few studies also generally aim at adequacy of language description by way of describing such nonverbal behaviours that impinge on verbal behaviour and/or exploit verbal-like elements in the nonverbal act.
		The depiction of nonverbal behaviour also provides various types of realism to the story, while providing at the same time various means at the disposal of the author-various processes to define the characters and to retain and recall such definitions to meet the demands of the story as well as the artistry.
	www.languageinindia.com /sep2003/nonverbalbehavior.html (10225 words)

	Introduction to nonverbal communication
		Fatt (1998) describes non-verbal behaviour as a skill that is useful to the business person, however falls short of attributing a major importance to the non-verbal part of a message in a business context.
		It seems more likely that there is a scale of active and passive control of non-verbal behaviour on the side of the communicator, and that therefore there are different degrees of ‘active’ and ‘passive’ control over non-verbal behaviour associated with each individual non-verbal behaviour.
		Haptics describe touching behaviour, whereas proxemics is concerned with personal space usage and paralanguage looks at non-word utterances and other non-verbal clues relatively closely related to language use.
	stephan.dahl.at /nonverbal/non-verbal_communication.html (603 words)

	the f-word - Body Language Speaks Volumes
		Behaviour that reinforces gender order, asserts male dominance, and diminishes women is everywhere.
		One of the many behaviours Nancy Henley identified was the extent to which men use non-reciprocal touching behaviour on women.
		It is hard to resist this kind of behaviour because it is not commonly acknowledged verbally - to speak of it is to make an issue if it and risk the 'frigid' label.
	www.thefword.org.uk /features/2003/10/body_language_speaks_volumes (2204 words)

	RESEARCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This focus on verbal content often means a certain neglect of the signs of non-verbal communication, the earliest ones developed by the individual.
		Ethological methods of behaviour observation are not dependent on readiness to cooperate or the communicative ability on the part of the individual, and are therefore especially appropriate for research with autistic children (Hutt, 1975).
		The behaviour of the children was filmed at the centre during a play session in the presence of a trainer two days before the Auricula training session started and at the end of their stay.
	www.auricula.org /anglais/research.htm (906 words)

	Defusing Hostile Customers Workbook - Chapter II The Nature of Angry, Hostile and Abusive Behaviour
		It is this kind of behaviour that causes the greater amount of stress for government employees, because people using hostile/abusive behaviours tend to rant, insult, use intimidating tactics, and simply won't go away.
		Sometimes, these behaviours may not be intended to intimidate or demean you, and may be a relatively normal way of expressing anger.
		It is important that the employee be aware of his or her own behaviour in contributing to this cycle, particularly because the employee will bear the stress problems that crises bring with them.
	work911.com /products/defuse2.htm (5394 words)

	The Importance of Non-verbal Communication in Professional Interpretation
		Non-verbal behaviour predates verbal communication because individuals, since birth, rely first on non-verbal means to express themselves.
		Those who are able to think critically and to investigate the behaviour of the speaker are able to ferret out the nature of those symbols.
		However, non-verbal behaviour varies from culture to culture, which means it is specific to each culture and may be interpreted differently.
	www.aiic.net /ViewPage.cfm/article1274.htm (4030 words)

	Understanding verbal understanding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In many cases, the attribution of a specific intention involves a simple pattern of inference: the behaviour of an individual is observed to have a certain desirable effect; the individual is assumed to have intended this very effect.
		Consider a behaviour intended to change the mental state of an individual, and imagine that that target individual herself observes this behaviour and recognises the underlying intention.
		This ostensive behaviour would give John evidence of her intention: she intends, by her behavior, to make him realise that it is time to go home.
	www.dan.sperber.com /intel.htm (5748 words)

	Verbal Behaviour
		The term "verbal behavior" was coined by B.F. Skinner.
		Verbal Behavior is a form of ABA with an emphasis on verbal skills.
		Prompts range in intrusiveness from physical guidance, to demonstration, verbal cues, visual cues, pointing, and within stimulus prompts such as proximity.
	www.asotoronto.org /treat_VB.htm (574 words)

	Ministry for the Family&Social Solidarity - European Social Fund - Home Page
		The results of the study indicated that both males and females were found to be exposed to the verbal, non-verbal and physical sexual conduct.
		As regards the prevalence of sexual behaviour at the place of work, the highest percentage was reported for the non-verbal sexual behaviour, whereby 38.2 per cent of the surveyed respondents reported that they received non-verbal sexual advances from their workmates.
		When analysing the perception of this behaviour (Table 2), 44.1 per cent of the respondents who had encountered verbal sexual behaviour from their workmates reported that they perceive this behaviour to be offensive.
	www.msp.gov.mt /ministry/sexual_harassment.asp (696 words)

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		As concerning the analysed materials, part of them have been selected from existing speech databases, but also new data have been specifically collected by means of an optoelectronic system, for the purpose of recording, with a high degree of precision, head movements and facial displays related to communicative feedback, turn-regualtion and expression of emotions.
		Moreover for some of the verbal feedback expression, acoustic analysis were carried out to look at their prosodic characteristics.
		Some of the analysed non-verbal behaviour are going to be reproduced in synthetic talking head to allow for more direct control over all the relevant parameters under observation.
	www.speech.kth.se /~loce/research.doc (274 words)

	IFE PsychologIA - Vol. 10, No. 2 (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Influence of Alcohol and Presence of Women on Verbal Behaviour
		This paper presents a report of an observational study on the impact of alcohol and presence of women on verbal behaviour of Nigerian alcohol users.
		Specifically, the study investigated how speech is influenced by alcohol use in relation to; the frequency of speech, the type of issues discussed and if the presence of women is related to these aspects of verbal behaviour.
	www.ajol.info /viewarticle.php?id=4745 (369 words)

	Unconscious Leakage!
		One of the pair, person A, person has the task of matching person B's behaviour subtly for a couple of minutes and then deliberately and very obviously mis-matching their behaviour.
		Even though B knows that what A is doing is part of the exercise they generally falter in their conversation and they will often stop altogether.
		However what is beyond question is that our non-verbal behaviour is very powerful indeed — because it is to this non-verbal aspect of our communication that people most immediately and most emotionally respond.
	www.nlp-now.co.uk /non-verbals.htm (1384 words)

	VB Community \| The Analysis of Verbal Behaviour: Teaching language to children with autism and other developmental ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Its goal is to promote awareness in the UK of the use of BF Skinner's analysis of Verbal Behaviour in teaching people with autism and other developmental conditions.
		Although the approach is conceptually sound and is supported by a modest literature on the acquisition of verbal operants, no outcome research currently exists to directly support the long-term application of the verbal-behavior approach to children with autism.
		Useful introduction to Verbal Behaviour theory and practice from Saplings Educating for Life.
	vbcommunity.org.uk (504 words)

	"Clean Language Without Words" by Penny Tompkins and James Lawley
		We recommend you see clients' behaviour as an expression of symbolic patterning, rather than as 'body language' to be read (ref. 9).
		Sometimes clients cannot describe their experience in words because it was encoded pre-verbally, or related to an unspeakable traumatic event or connected with a mystical experience.
		Modelling a client's non-verbal behaviour with Clean Language acknowledges their way of being, provides them with information about how they make sense of their perceptual world, and enables them to establish a Metaphoric Landscape within which appropriate change can take place.
	www.cleanlanguage.co.uk /withoutwords.html (2978 words)

	Priv.-Doz. Dr. Hedda Lausberg: Kurse und Workshops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The coding criteria for non-verbal behaviour used by these researches are presented and the theoretical concepts behind their analysis systems are exposed.
		In the practical part of the workshop, we will train coding of gestural behaviour by using these analysis systems, and give advice how to use the gesture analysis for scientific purposes.
		The self-perception of one’s own non-verbal behaviour improves the recognition of similar features in the partner and sheds light on the patterns of non-verbal inter-action.
	www.berlingesturecenter.de /heddalausberg/hlkurse.html (274 words)

	Communicating Effectively (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Anger, insecurity and a low self-worth are often at the root of this form of behaviour and results in contempt for others and blocked communication.
		Assertive behaviour stems from respect for others and ourselves and results in an ability to communicate information, ideas and feelings openly.
		Being in control of our own behaviour is an important aspect of being able to deal effectively with the behaviour of those people around us.
	www.hud.ac.uk /oldham-careers/byocm/comm/calls5.htm (727 words)

	N.A.L.D. - Canadian Literacy Resources - WORKPLACE BASIC SKILLS - Unit III: Communication Skills - page 50 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Group members role play the three types of behaviour around a situation suggested by the group.
		After each scene, describe the behaviour observed and fit it into headings on the chart.
		If the group has time, do this in pairs and give each student a chance to practice assertive behaviour around a particular concern of her own.
	www.nald.ca /Clr/wkplace/page50.htm (262 words)

	School of English, Communication and Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This module explores the wide-ranging aspects of nonverbal communication and behaviour in different aspects of everyday life.
		The module is illustrated with many photographic and video examples of non-verbal behaviour drawn from various educational and non-educational sources.
		The module develops knowledge, understanding and skills to identify and analyse different forms of nonverbal communication and behaviour.
	www.cf.ac.uk /encap/clcr/modules/03/se1363.html (89 words)

	B. F. Skinner Foundation - Book Detail
		Skinner argues that verbal behavior requires a separate analysis because it does not operate on the environment directly, but rather through the behavior of other people in a verbal community.
		He illustrates his thesis with examples from literature, the arts, and the sciences, as well as from his own verbal behavior and that of his colleagues and children.
		Perhaps it is because this theoretical work provides a way to approach that most human of human behavior that Skinner often called Verbal Behavior his most imprtant work.
	www.bfskinner.org /BookDetail.asp?sku=19 (239 words)

	Communication Skills - people resort to a variety of verbal and non-verbal behaviour in order to maintain a smooth flow ...
		While the coach is speaking the athlete is expected to listen and wait patiently until the coach finishes.
		On closer examination it can be seen that people resort to a variety of verbal and non-verbal behaviour in order to maintain a smooth flow of communication.
		When coaches provide information to the athlete, which will allow them to take actions to effect change, it is important that they provide the information in a positive manner.
	www.brianmac.demon.co.uk /commun.htm (650 words)

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		Applied Verbal Behavior (AVB), a specialty within the field of
		AVB is based upon B.F. Skinner's 1957 analysis of verbal behavior, which looks at the
		functions of the different verbal operants (units of language).
	www.asohalton.org /avb.htm (290 words)

	Citations: Word length and the structure of short term memory - Baddeley, Thomson, Buchanan (ResearchIndex)
		Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 14, 1975, pp.
		Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 14:575--589, 1975.
		Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour, 14, 575-589.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/1197/0 (1061 words)

	Intercultural business communication (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		transmit it, relying on both non-verbal and verbal cues.
		Non-verbal communication differs from verbal communication in fundamental ways.
		For one thing, it is less structured, which makes it more difficult to study.
	www.referatfrom.ru /watch/464/1.html (6491 words)

	Find in a Library: Doctors talking to patients : a study of the verbal behaviour of general practitioners consulting in ...
		Find in a Library: Doctors talking to patients : a study of the verbal behaviour of general practitioners consulting in their surgeries
		Doctors talking to patients : a study of the verbal behaviour of general practitioners consulting in their surgeries
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/f81a1c931bc50ee6.html (85 words)

	Nonverbal Behavior: Essentials, Journals, Online experiments, Notation systems.
		Would you like to participate in a nonverbal behavior scientific experiment?
		Rating people on their attractiveness and future behaviour.
		American Psychological Society: Psychological research on the net.
	www3.usal.es /~nonverbal/varios.htm (144 words)

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