Categories of Implicit Interpersonal Communication: Cross-Cultural Responses

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to test responses of international students and American nationals to a set of eight interpersonal displays. These displays were intended to portray the eight interpersonal roles specified by Leary in 1957 and subjects' responses to these displays were consistent with those of our earlier studies. These findings suggest there is some cross-cultural consistency in responses to larger nonverbal behavioral units as well as in responses to smaller nonverbal behavioral units as documented by Ekman and his associates.