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The Relative Contribution To Meaning Of Verbal And Nonverbal Channels Of Communication: A Meta-Analysis, Jeffrey S. Philpott
The Relative Contribution To Meaning Of Verbal And Nonverbal Channels Of Communication: A Meta-Analysis, Jeffrey S. Philpott
Department of Communication Studies: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The current study is grounded in the psychological approaches to the mechanics of communication, somewhere between cybernetics and attribution.
The integration of information available in different channels is the focus of the present study. To what extent do people rely on the different channels of communication to assign meaning to their world? More specifically, what is the relative importance of the verbal and nonverbal channels of communication in the meaning creation process?
This question of channel reliance is of central import to the study of the role of information in social/psychological systems. If it can be assumed that meaning is …