The interpretation of nonverbal behavior in a role-defined interaction sequence: The police-citizen encounter

Autor: Richard M. Rozelle, James C. Baxter
Rok vydání: 1978
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Zdroj: Environmental Psychology and Nonverbal Behavior. 2:167-180
ISSN: 1573-3653
0361-3496
DOI: 10.1007/bf01145819
Popis: Videotapes of staged police-citizen interactions were shown to subjects. Nonverbal behaviors of the citizen were programmed to reflect empirically derived reactions to spatial intrusion versus nonintrusion conditions by the police officer. In the first study subjects made attributional ratings of the citizen based on the nonverbal behaviors only with the physical distance between the interactants held constant. Citizens exhibiting spatial intrusion reaction behaviors were judged to be significantly more deceptive, guilty, anxious, and generally more suspicious and unfavorable than citizens not exhibiting such behaviors. In the second study physical distance was explicitly manipulated to create a close versus distant condition. The behavioral cue manipulation from the first study was reproduced in each of these proximity conditions. Many replications of results from the first study were obtained indicating that the preponderant cause of impression formation of the citizen was based upon spatial intrusion behavioral cues, regardless of the perceived physical distance between the interactants. However, significant interaction effects between proximity and behavioral cue conditions were obtained and confirmed an attribution theory prediction regarding degree of confidence in impression-formation ratings made of the citizen.
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