body language

[Amy Sheldon]

There may not be much empirical descriptive work  that is reliable  
that's been done.
To make generalizations from fact (not stereotypes) one would have to  
analyze actual recorded data, and lots of it.
Technology for doing that is very new.

There is a journal called Gesture.
At the U of Texas, the proceedings for the First Int'l gesture  
conference (about 2002) is on line at the "International House of  
gesture" website in the School of Communication.

I think there's been some work on gender differences in smiling  
behavior which predates digital techology.
The person whose work you'd want to access is Ekman. He's a  
communication scholar and has been doing "nonverbal" research for a  
long time.

Amy Sheldon

On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:02 PM, ABIGAIL RITA ARMOUR wrote:

> I am trying to write a paper for a gender and language class at my  
> university about how men and women use body language in  
> conversation.  However, I really do not have any idea where to  
> start and was wondering if anybody had any suggestions.  I am  
> really open to anything along these lines because I am ready to go  
> where the research will take me.  Thank you very much for your help!
>
> Abby