Social Intelligence and Nonverbal Communication

1. Social intelligence: What it is and why we need it more than ever before; Robert J. Sternberg, Avery Siying Li.- 2.Nonverbal receiving ability as emotional and cognitive empathy: Conceptualization and measurement; Ross Buck, Brett Graham, Ryan Allred, Roeland Hancock.- 3. Empathy and rapport as spontaneous communication: At the intersection of the traditional social and behavioral sciences, and the new affective and communication sciences; Ross Buck, Stephen Stifano, Brett Graham, Ryan Allred.- 4. Factors that facilitate or impair kinesic and vocalic nonverbal behaviors during interpersonal deception; Judee K. Burgoon, Lauren M. Hamel, J. Pete Blair, Nathan W. Twyman.- 5. Nonverbal communication: Evolution and today; Mark G. Frank and Anne Solbu.- 6. Nonverbal steps to the origin of language; David B. Givens.- 7. A new look at person memory; Terrence G. Horgan.- 8. Communicating with robots: What we do wrong and what we do right in Artificial Social Intelligence, and what we need to do better; Arvid Kappas, Rebecca Stower, Eric J. Vanman.- 9. Reading faces: Ability to recognize true and false emotion; Aleksandra Kostic, Derek Chadee, Jasmina Nedeljkovic.- 10. Hidden tears and scrambled joy:  On the adaptive costs of unguarded nonverbal social signals; Dennis Küster.- 11. Interpersonal accuracy and interaction outcomes: Why and how reading others correctly has adaptive advantages in social interactions; Tristan Palese, Marianne Schmid Mast.- 12. Skill in social situations: The essence of savoir-faire; Ronald E. Riggio, Leslie G. Eaton, David C. Funder.- 13. Inter- and intrapersonal downsides of accurately perceiving others' emotions; Katja Schlegel.- 14. Trait impressions from faces demonstrate preserved social intelligence in older adulthood; Leslie A. Zebrowitz, Robert G. Franklin.- 15. Postscript: Social intelligence asthe

Robert J. Sternberg is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University, USA and Honorary Professor of Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Germany. He has won the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology and the William James and James McKeen Cattell Awards from the APS.




Aleksandra Kostic is Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University of Nis, Serbia. Her research interests include nonverbal communication, emotional experience, time perspective, ethnic identity, and similarities and differences between cultures in perception of category, intensity and antecedents of emotion.