ABSTRACT

Meta-analysis has long been used to address questions about correlates of nonverbal behavior. Topics have included gender differences in accuracy of decoding nonverbal cues (Hall, 1978, 1984; McClure, 2000), gender difference is nonverbal behavior (Hall, 1984; LaFrance, Hecht, & Paluck, 2003), nonverbal cues that mediate interpersonal expectancy effects (Harris & Rosenthal, 1985), nonverbal cues indicative of deception (Zuckerman & Driver, 1985), dominance-status differences in decoding nonverbal cues (Hall, Halberstadt, & O'Brien, 1997), cross-cultural effects in decoding nonverbal cues (Elfenbein & Ambady, 2002), facial feedback effects (Matsumoto, 1987), and facial asymmetry in the expression of emotion (Skinner & Mullen, 1991).