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Publication details [#51984]

Seiter, John S., Harry, Jr Weger, Harold J. Kinzer and Andrea Sandry Jensen. 2009. Impression Management in Televised Debates: The Effect of Background Nonverbal Behavior on Audience Perceptions of Debaters' Likeability. Communication Research Reports 26 (1) : 1–11.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience monitoring | impression management | non-verbal behavior | perception3 | television debate

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study demonstrates that in televised debates, opponents' nonverbal background behavior did not affect audience perception of the speaking debater.