Patients' Characteristics Affecting Physician-Patient Nonverbal Communication.

Street, Richard L.; Buller, David B.

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ERIC Number: EJ379906

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Publication Date: 1988

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Patients' Characteristics Affecting Physician-Patient Nonverbal Communication.

Street, Richard L.; Buller, David B.

Human Communication Research, v15 n1 p60-90 Fall 1988

Examines the impact of patients' characteristics on patterns of nonverbal communication exhibited in physician-patient interactions at a family practice clinic. Finds some general patterns of nonverbal behavioral differences, consistency, and adaptation characterizing the entire data set, and that patients' characteristics influenced patterns of nonverbal behavior exchange. (MS)

Descriptors: Anxiety, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Communication Research, Medical Services, Nonverbal Communication, Patients, Physician Patient Relationship, Physicians

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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