THE SIGNIFICANCE OF POSTURE IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF POSTURE IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS.
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通信系统中姿势的重要性。
DOI:
10.1080/00332747.1964.11023403
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发表时间:
1964
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影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
A. Scheflen
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作者:
A. Scheflen
IN THE COURSE of research in psychotherapy, my colleagues and I have turned up an unexpected finding: Configurations of posture or body positioning indicate at a glance a great deal about what is going on in an interaction. This paper will discuss these postural configurations, which are reliable indicators of the following aspects of communication:(1) They demarcate the components of individual behavior that each person contributes to the group activities;(2) they indicate how the individual contributions are related to each other; and (3) they define the steps and order in the interaction-that is, the" program." All English-speaking people (who also move'in English') seem to utilize this postural information unconsciously for orienting themselves in a group. A conscious knowledge of these postural functions is of great value in research in human behavior and in studying or conducting a psychotherapy session informedly.